Dudley, Worcestershire Family History Guide
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Parishes in Dudley
Dudley Parish Registers
Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Dudley, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
Dudley, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Dudley, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Dudley, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997
Dudley Worcestershire Burials 1803-1974
The following Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, hosted by Findmypast, are a collection of transcriptions created by the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry.
Dudley Bourne Street Our Blessed Lady & St Thomas of Canterbury RC Monumental Inscriptions 1852-1983
Dudley King St Independent Chapel Monumental Inscriptions 1811-1929
Dudley St Edmund Monumental Inscriptions 1287-1977
Dudley St James (including Churchyard) Monumental Inscriptions 1836-1979
Dudley St John Monumental Inscriptions 1801-1992
Dudley St Thomas & Queens Cross Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions 1664-1982
Dudley Wolverhampton St Methodist Monumental Inscriptions 1787-1973
Nonconformist Registers
The Old Non-Parochial Registers of Dudley 1656 to 1837
The Old Non-Parochial Registers of Dudley 1656 to 1837 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research
The Old Non-Parochial Registers of Dudley comprising those of the Society of Freinds, The Old Meeting House, The Independents, The Wesleyan Methodists, The Baptists and the Methodist New Connexion. Edited by Arthur A. Rollason. Printed by the Herald Press, 210, Wolverhampton Street, 1899.
The Old Non-Parochial Registers of Dudley contain over Three Thousand entries of Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, and Burials of Nonconformists from 1656 to 1837
The Old Non-Parochial Registers of Dudley 1656 to 1837
Parish Records
Dudley School Records
The National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870–1914 collection offers a rare glimpse into the educational journeys of children across England and Wales during a transformative era. These records often capture names, dates of birth, parental occupations, and school attendance patterns – making them invaluable for family historians, local researchers, and anyone tracing Victorian or Edwardian ancestry. You can view them free with a Findmypast Trial.
Dudley Girls’ High School 1911-1914 Admissions
Dudley Grammar School 1877-1914 Admissions
Jessons School 1908-1914 Admissions
Sir Gilbert Claughton School 1904-1914 Admissions
St James’s School 1899-1914 Admissions
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School 1913-1914 Admissions
St Thomas Cartwright’s Charity School 1897-1914 Admissions
St Thomas Cartwright’s Charity School (Girl Candidates) 1870-1899 Admissions
St Thomas’s Girls’ (Later Mixed Junior) Primary School (Mixed, Fees Dept. 1883-1911 Admissions
St Thomas’s Girls’ (Later Mixed Junior) Primary School (Mixed, Free Dept) 1899-1914 Admissions
St Thomas’s Infants School, King Street 1881-1914 Admissions
St Thomas’s Infants School, Tetnall Street 1908-1914 Admissions
Bankrupts
London Gazette
John Green – Dudley Worcestershire, Long Whatton Leicestershire & Deffield Derbyshire – London Gazette 1850
Pursuant to the Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England.
The following PRISONERS, whose Estates and Effects have been vested in the Provisional Assignee by Order of the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, and whose Petitions and Schedules, duly filed, have been severally referred and transmitted to the County Courts hereinafter mentioned, pursuant to the Statute in that behalf, are ordered to be brought up before the Judges of the said Courts respectively, as herein set forth, to be dealt with according to Law :
Before the Judge of the County Court of Worcestershire, holden at the Guildhall, Worcester, on Wednesday the 8th day of May 1850, at Ten o’Clock in the Forenoon precisely.
John Green, late of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, out of business, previously of Dudley, in the county of Worcester aforesaid, Victualler, and Dealer in Corks, previously of the parish of Long Whatton, in the county of Leicester, Victualler and Dealer in Corks, previously of the parish of Deffield, in the county of Derby, Victualler, but formerly of the parish of Long Whatton aforesaid, in the county of Leicester aforesaid, Victualler.
Historical Directories of Dudley
Corporation General and Trades Directory of Birmingham and Wolverhampton 1861. Printed and Sold for the Proprietors by William Cornish, Wholesale and Retail Bookseller, Printer and Publisher, 40, New Street, Birmingham. 1861. Contents: Birmingham, Bilston, Brierley Hill, Coventry, Cradley, Darlaston, Dudley, Oldbury, Redditch, Rowley Regis, Sedgley, Stourbridge, Tipton, Walsall, Wednesbury, Willenhall, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton. Also includes Birmingham Suburbs: Acock’s Green, Aston, Castle Bromwich, Erdington, Frankley, Gravelly Hill, Handsworth, Harborne, King’s Norton, Perry Bar, Quinton, Selly, Saltley, Smethwick, Ward End, Witton, Yardley, &c. File size: 98 MB – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Worcestershire General and Commercial Directory for 1820 Part First containing the City & Suburbs of Worcester, the Borough of Droitwich, also the towns of Bromsgrove and Stourbridge, presenting and Alphabetical Arrangement of the Gentry, Clergy, Merchants, Manufacturers and Inhabitants in general with a digest of Professions and Trades and a list of Magistrates for the County. To which is prefixed a brief account of the Trade, Manufacture, Population, Extent, Public Buildings, &c. of each Town. Compiled by S. Lewis, Lowesmoor, Worcester – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Historical Directory Transcriptions
Dudley Trades and Professions Lewis Worcestershire Directory 1820
Dudley Universal British Directory 1791
History of Dudley
Dudley The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Dudley Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822
Historical Maps
