Coseley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1832 from Sedgley Ancient Parish.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1830
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1830
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COSELEY, a village and a chapelry in Sedgley parish, Stafford. The village stands on the Birmingham canal, near the Birmingham and Wolverhampton railway, 1½ mile S of Bilston; and has a post office under Bilston, and a station, jointly with Deepfield, on the railway. The chapelry includes the village and a tract around it; and was constituted in 1832. Pop., 15,796. Houses, 3,022. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in the iron and the coal trade. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £250. Patron, the Earl of Dudley.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Staffordshire, Coseley – Church history ( 2 )
The history of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Coseley, Staffordshire, 1856-
Author: Turner, J. G.
S. Chad’s Church, Coseley : the first hundred years
Author: Wilkes, C. Beryl
England, Staffordshire, Coseley – Church records ( 8 )
Births and namings, 1810-1837
Author: Providence Chapel (Coseley, Staffordshire : Baptist)
Births, 1822-1837
Author: Darkhouse Chapel (Coseley, Staffordshire : Baptist)
Births, 1822-1837
Author: Darkhouse Chapel (Coseley, Staffordshire : Baptist)
Bishop’s transcripts for Christ Church, Coseley, 1830-1856
Author: Church of England. Christ Church (Coseley, Staffordshire)
Parish registers and miscellany for Coseley, Staffordshire, 1830-1919
Author: Church of England. Christ Church (Coseley, Staffordshire); Dudley Public Libraries. Archives and Local History Department
Parish registers and miscellany for St. Chad, Coseley (West), Staffordshire, 1879-1913
Author: Church of England. St. Chad’s Church (Coseley, Staffordshire); Dudley Public Libraries. Archives and Local History Department
Registers of Christchurch, Coseley, Staffordshire : baptisms & burials, 1830-1837
Author: Church of England. Christ Church (Coseley, Staffordshire)
The surrendered nonconformist registers of the parish of Sedgley including Coseley, Staffordshire
Author: Partington, E. V. (Elsie Agnes Vincett); Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry
England, Staffordshire, Coseley – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Coseley, Stafford, England ; christenings, 1830-1856
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Staffordshire, Coseley – History ( 1 )
A walk back in time around Coseley
Author: Wilkes, C. Beryl
England, Staffordshire, Coseley – Schools ( 1 )
School log book for Broad Lanes Infant School, 1901-1908
Author: Broad Lanes Infant School (Coseley, Staffordshire)
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Dudley
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Himley
- Poor Law Union: Dudley
- Hundred: North Seisdon
- Province: Canterbury
