Ogley Hay Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Status: Extra-parochial

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1849
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: see surrounding parishes

Nonconformists include: Independent, Wesleyan Methodist, and Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OGLEY-HAY, a village, an extra-parochial tract, and a chapelry, in the S of Staffordshire. The village stands on the Wyrley and Essington canal, near Watling-street, and near the boundary with Warwickshire, 4 miles S of Lichfield r. station; and is a prosperous place.

The extra-parochial tract includes the village, and extends into the country. Acres, 705. Real property, £2,394. Pop.in 1851, 518; in 1861, 1,357. Houses, 258. The increase of pop. was caused mainly by the opening of three large collieries. Traces of a Roman camp, called Knave’s Castle, are to the N of the village.

The chapelry excludes part of the extra-parochial tract, but includes parts of the parishes of St. Michael, Shenstone, Walsall, and Norton-under-Cannock; and was constituted in 1854. Post-town, Shenstone, under Lichfield. Pop. in 1861, 2,490. Houses, 476. Pop. of the St. Michael portion, 461; of the Shenstone portion, 105; of the Walsall portion, 229; of the Norton portion, 783.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £170. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was built in 1851; and is a stone edifice, with tower and low spire.

There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and two national schools.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Ogley-Hay – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of Ogley Hay Church, Staffs
Author: Baggott, Stan; Davis, G. L.; Harris, Pauline; Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry; Church of England. Parish Church of Ogley-Hay (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Ogley-Hay – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Ogley-Hay, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Staffordshire, Ogley-Hay – Church records ( 2 )
England, Staffordshire, Ogley-Hay, parish registers
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ogley-Hay (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Ogley-Hay, 1849-1900
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ogley-Hay (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Ogley-Hay – History ( 1 )
Brownhills local history trail
Author: Hammond, Joyce

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Lichfield
  • Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
  • Diocese: Not Applicable
  • Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
  • Poor Law Union: Lichfield
  • Hundred: South Offlow
  • Province: Canterbury