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

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

Records are also available at the The Hive (where the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service is located).

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.&lt;br&gt;


 * England Jurisdictions 1851 *Vision of Britain

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