Dudley St Luke, Worcestershire Genealogy

Guide to Dudley St Luke, Worcestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Dudley St Luke was formed as a district church from Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire. Created in 1876 from Dudley (St Thomas) Ancient Parish. Abolished in 1969 to help create Dudley St Thomas &amp; St Luke Ecclesiastical Parish. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction: Archdeaconry &amp; Diocese of Worcester until 1921, Archdeaconry of Dudley &amp; Diocese of Worcester (1921 - ).

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
Before the following register dates and afterwards refer to deposited registers (or microfilm) of the mother parish Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire

Dudley St Luke (Wellington Road) parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To search for the Dudley records inputted by Staffordshire FreeREG - select County as Staffordshire and for Place select Dudley Staffs. Although most of Dudley is within Worcestershire - many of it's 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.

Dudley Archives has deposited Parish registers Bap 1876-1970 Marr 1877-1977 (microfilmed for Bap 1876-1948 and marriages 1877-1942)

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 fature 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 Dudley district churches, mission churches were created in the period beyond the reach of extracted index for the area and primary source research is advised.

Many of Dudley Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851 *Vision of Britain

Websites
Worcester Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry