Amblecote Worcestershire Family History Guide
Amblecote or Amblecoat was originally a hamlet in Oldswinford Ancient Parish, it became a separate Civil Parish in 1866. Amblecote Ecclesiastical Parish, partly in Staffordshire and partly in Worcestershire, was created in 1845 from Old Swinford Ancient Parish and refounded in 1860. In 1860 the ecclesiastical boundary was altered when the township of Wollaston was severed to create Wollaston Ecclesiastical Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Coalbourn Brook and Wollaston.
Parish church: Holy Trinity
Parish registers begin: see Old Swinford and also Kingswinford and Wordesley
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Amblecote Parish Registers
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Amblecote, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Amblecote, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997
The following Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, hosted by Findmypast, are a collection of transcriptions created by the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry.
Amblecote Holy Trinity Monumental Inscriptions 1820-1988
Amblecote Parish Records
An index of parish records of people from Amblecote. The index includes information from Calendar of the Quarter Sessions papers Worcestershire v1.
Quarter Sessions
The records below have been extracted from the book Calendar of the Quarter Sessions papers Worcestershire v1.
11 April 1607. Recognizance before George Wylde by Peter Lench and Simon Perks for the appearance of William Thompson alias Beeve of Amblecote in the County of Stafford Yeoman and for his keeping the peace towards John Rock. XVII. 45.
(1607). Indictment of William Tompson alias Beere of Amblecote in Co, Stafford Gilbert Tompson alias Beere William Westwood Ambrose Freeman and Mary wife of John Grove for assaulting John Rocke Constable of Stourbridge, A true Bill. XVII. 58
Amblecote Parish History
Amblecote
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
AMBLECOAT, a hamlet and a chapelry in Old Swinford parish, Stafford. The hamlet stands on the southern verge of the county, at the river Stour; and is suburban to Stourbridge, being separated from it only by the river. Acres, 689. Real property, with Kingswinford, £273,468, of which £66,786 are in mines, £128,936 in iron-works, and £9,550 in canals. Pop., 2,613. Houses, 531. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in potteries, glass-works, collieries, and ironworks. The chapelry was constituted in 1845, and originally included Woolaston, but since 1860, has been coextensive with Amblecoat hamlet. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £100. Patron, the Earl of Stamford. The church stands on an eminence, was opened in 1844, and is a pleasing structure of fire bricks.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
AMBLECOAT, a hamlet in that part of the parish of Old Swinford, which is in Staffordshire, in the union of Stourbridge; 1 mile north of Stourbridge. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the collieries, and earthenware, and iron-works, in the vicinity. Pop., in. 1801, 1,002; in 1831, 1,236. Houses 244. Acres 570. A.P. £3,186. Poor rates, in 1837, £679. — There are an infant-school, and four daily schools, here.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Amblecoat, a hamlet, in the parish of Old Swinford, union of Stourbridge, S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and the county of Stafford, ½ mile (N.) from Stourbridge; containing 1623 inhabitants. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £220. A school, in which are about 150 boys and 85 girls, is supported by subscription.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
Coalbourn Brook
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Coalbourn-Brook, a locality on the northern border of Worcester, 1 mile from Stourbridge. It has a post-office under Stourbridge.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Staffordshire & Worcestershire
- Civil Registration District: Stourbridge
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Kidderminster
- Poor Law Union: Stourbridge
- Hundred: Staffordshire: South Seisdon; Worcestershire: Halfshire
- Province: Canterbury