Dudley St Augustine Holly Hall, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire

Parish History
Dudley St Augustine Holly Hall was created as an Ecclesiastical Parish from parts of Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire and Dudley St Luke, Worcestershire

It included Harts Hill Mission Church.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

See West Midlands BMD

Church records
Dudley St Augustine Holly Hall was created as an Ecclesiastical Parish from parts of Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire and Dudley St Luke, Worcestershire

It included Harts Hill Mission Church.

Dudley Archives has deposited Parish registers Bap 1884-1975 Marr 1884-1970 Bur 1884-1961Microfilm for Bap 1884-1942 Marr 1884-1934 Bur 1884-1947 is available.

Harts Hill Mission Church

Dudley Archives has deposited Parish registers Bap 1906-1934 Microfilm for these years is also available

Earlier years records for Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire should be searched for earlier years

Coverage of the Dudley parishes in the International Genealogical Index for the microfilmed years of St Thomas and St Edmund's parishes is generally good for Baptism and Marriage records but will not include data for this parish and index entries for Dudley should be compared with the original record source to establish transcription errors or submission from individuals which may not be based on deposited records at Dudley Archives. It is also advisable to seek burial records from the burials registers which rarely feature in the indexed batches of the International Genealogical Index.

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free. To search for the Dudley records inputted by Staffordshire FreeREG - within a search select County as Staffordshire &amp; within place select Dudley Staffs. Although most of Dudley is within Worcestershire, many of its records are for people living in the surrounding Staffordshire Parishes. The Parish itself was always completely surrounded by Staffordshire and has been incorporated with other Staffordshire Parishes for Civil Registration purposes since 1837.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Dudley Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Worcestershire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Worcester Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry