Kingswinford, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Kingswinford, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SWINFORD, KING'S (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Stourbridge, N. division of the hundred of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Dudley. This parish, is situated on the roads from Dudley to Stourbridge, and from Wolverhampton to Worcester. The Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans, have places of worship.

Holy Trinity was built as the new Parish Church for Kingswinford in 1831 and replaced St Mary. The earlier records of St Mary were transferred to Holy Trinity. St Mary became a chapel of ease until 1846 after which it became a serparate parish.

Church Records
Kingswinford 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 Staffordshive Record Office.

Non-Conformist Churches
Shut End Primitive Methodist Chapel  registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Census Records

 * 1532/3 - A List of Families in 1532/3

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