Brierley Hill, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Brierley Hill, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BRIERLEY-HILL, a district chapelry, in the parish of King's Swinford, union of Stourbridge, N. division of the hundred of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford,2¼ miles (N. N. E.) from Stourbridge.

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 and Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Brierley Hill St Michael

Brierley Hill parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Dudley Archives has deposited Parish registers Bap 1756-1954 Marr 1837-1952 Bur 1766-1963

Bap 1766-1939 Marr 1837-1933 Bur 1766-1935 (microfilm)

Delph Mission church was within this parish

Dudley Archives has deposited parish registers Bap 1886-1939 and these years are also on microfilm.

Non-Conformist Churches
Brierley Hill Particular Baptists registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Poor Law Unions
Stourbridge Poor Law Union, Worcestershire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Staffordshire 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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/BrierleyHill/index.html