Gornal Staffordshire Family History Guide

Gornal is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1824 from Sedgley Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Lower Gornal

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1823
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1823

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GORNALL (Lower and Upper), two villages and two chapelries in Sedgley parish, Stafford. The villages stand near the Birmingham and Wolverhampton railway, 2 miles NW of Dudley r. station, and 4 and 4½ S of Wolverhampton; and each has a post office of its own name, that of L. G. with U. G., under Dudley.

The tract around them abounds in fire-clay; and many of the inhabitants are employed in working this into bricks and other articles; while many are employed also in collieries, hardware works, bellows factories, and malt-houses. The property is much subdivided.

The chapelry of L. G. was constituted in 1832; and that of U. G., in 1844. Pop. of L. G., 5,915. Houses, 1,128. Pop. of U. G., 4,044. Houses, 690. The livings of both are p. curacies in the diocese of Lichfield. Value of L. G., £129. Patron, the Earl of Dudley. Value of-G., £215. Patron, the Vicar of Sedgley.

There are in L. G., chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists; in G. Wood, chapels for Wesleyans and New Connexion Methodists; in U. G., chapels for Independents and Wesleyans. There are also national, British, and infant schools.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].