Old Swinford, Worcestershire Family History Guide

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Old Swinford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Worcestershire.

Other places in the parish include: Stourbridge, Wollescott, Wollescote, and Upper Swinford.

Alternative names: Oldswinford

Parish registers begin: 1602

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Unitarian, Primitive Methodist, Protestant Dissenters, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

CHURCH ROAD OLDSWINFORD
Chawnhill Oldswinford
Hagley Road Oldswinford
Oldswinford
Oldswinford Schools
Oldswinford Church
Old Swinford
Upper Hagley Road Old Swinford

Old Swinford 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.

Oldswinford, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Oldswinford, 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.

Oldswinford, 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.

Oldswinford, 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.

Oldswinford St Mary Monumental Inscriptions 1285-1989

Wollaston St James Monumental Inscriptions 1792-1981

Old Swinford Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Old Swinford Worcestershire. 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.

13 June 1598. Warrant for the arrest of Richard Handley of Oldswinford Yeoman and Thomas Tudge of the same Yeoman, XI.. 2.

11 April 1607. Recognizance before George Wylde by Richard Westwood of Oldswinford Yeoman to prosecute Thomas Palmer and Joan his wife for theft in stealing linen clothes from the hedge of Richard Westwood. XVII. 31.

7 September 1607. Recognizance before by John Parkes of . . . . and John Harhold of Oldswinford for the appearance of the said John Parkes. XIV, 44.

(1610). Warrant under the hands of Sir John Pakington and Sir George Wylde to the Sheriff Constable and peace Officers stated that Thomas Walton of Oldswinford is an evil doer fighter quarreller and a common disturber of His Majesty’s peace orders them at once to arrest the said Thomas Walton and bring him before a Justice of the Peace to enter into a recognizance to appear at the next Sessions. The warrant is endorsed “It is affirmed and proved that the Constable going to arrest the defendant who goeth armed with weapons and evil company one Pawle Hawkes an alehouse (keeper ?) locked him in the house that the Constable could not come to him. V. 82

20 June 1612. Recognizance before Edward Lord Dudley by Ralph Athersitch and Richard Moore both of Oldswinford for the appearance of the said Ralph and for his keeping the peace towards Mary Warner. XIX. 97.

22 August 1612. Recognizance before Sir Samuel Sandys Knight by Richard Knowles of Old Swinford John Parry and Richard Hull for the appearance of the said Richard Knowles at Sessions. XIX. 87.

(1612). Indictment of Richard Perks of Oldswinford Labourer for entering armed with bow arrows and other arms at 11 at night in the free warren of Muriel Lyttelton Widow at Hagley and taking hares and setting nets called “Hayes” A true Bill. XIX. 24.

13 November 1614. Recognizance before John Fleete by Richard Westwood of Oldswinford Scythesmith John Horwell of Rouslench Yeoman and John Westwood of King’s Swinford in the County of Stafford Yeoman for the appearance of the said Richard and that he will pay to his wife 12d, weekly until they shall agree to live together. XLIII. 19.

(1615). Indictment of Thomas Gibbins Labourer William Gibbins Labourer John Butcher Labourer David Tibbotts Yeoman Thomas Hill Mason and Jane Gybbons all of Oldswinford for riotously assembling and assaulting John Knowles Nailer. A true Bill. XXIII. 21.

Trinity Sessions 1616. Presentment by the Grand Jury of William Rider of Bushley for allowing drunkenness in his house and of Thomas Gibinges of the Lighe in the Parish of Old Swinford for “allowing tippling on the Sabbath day in the time of prayer and the “parishioners are much disquieted thereby not having any license to “our knowledge.” A true Bill, XXV. 94.

11 June 1618. Recognizance before John Lord Bishop of Worcester by John Knowles of Leigh in the Parish of Oldswinford for his appearance at Sessions to give evidence against William Webb …….. of the Lye concerning his neglect of the misdemeanour and plans of two young men brought by Webb before the said Bishop. XXVI. 91.

11 June 1618. Recognizance before John Bishop of Worcester by William Webb of Leigh in the Parish of Oldswinford Millwright and Edmond Parker for the appearance of the said William Webb at Sessions. XXVI. 89.

11 June 1618. Recognizance before John Bishop of Worcester by John Rollins of Stourton in the County of Stafford for his appearance at Sessions to give evidence against William Webb touching his neglect in not truly informing the Bishop of Worcester of offences committed by two young men. XXVI. 90.

27 March 1619. Recognizance before John Lord Bishop of Worcester by John Rocke of Stourbridge Yeoman to appear at Sessions and prosecute John Wildsmyth of Old Swinford Blacksmith for the suspicion of stealing certain sheep. LXXII. 4.

27 March 1617. Recognizance before John Lord Bishop of Worcester by John Wildsmyth of Old Swinford Blacksmith William Hornblower of Stourbridge Blacksmith and Geoffrey Hornblower of Kidderminster Weaver for the appearance of the said John Wildsmyth at Sessions to answer the charge of suspicion of stealing sheep. LXXII. 5.

27 March 1619. Examination before John Bishop of Worcester of John Wildsmith of Ould Swinford Blacksmith concerning his theft of a sheep and wool. LXXII. 56.

12 April 1619. Recognizance before Sir Richard Grevis by Nicholas Bradeley of Stourbridge Yeoman John Manning of Oldswinford Yeoman and Richard Wildsmith of the same Locksmith for the appearance at Sessions of the said Nicholas to answer for beating and wounding Joyce Parkes wife of George Parkes and Joan Bell wife of John Bell of Stourbridge. XXXII. 42.

Old Swinford Directory Transcriptions

Oldswinford Billings Directory 1855

Old Swinford Lewis Worcestershire Directory 1820

Parish History

Old Swinford The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SWINFORD (Old), a parish in Stourbridge district; comprising Stourbridge, Lye, Wollaston, Wollescott, and Upper Swinford townships in Worcestershire, and Amblecoat hamlet in Staffordshire.

Old S. proper adjoins the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton railway, 1 mile SSE of Stourbridge; and has a post-office under Stourbridge. Acres of the parish, 3,315. Real property, £48,270; of which £550 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 20,238; in 1861, 22,958. houses, 4,676. Useful minerals abound; manufactures of iron, glass, and fire-clay utensils are carried on; and ample communications, by the river Stour, by canals, and by railways, exist.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £781. Patron, the Earl of Dudley. The church is good. The p. curacies of Stourbridge-St. John, Stourbridge-St. Thomas, Lye, Wollaston, and Amblecoat are separate benefices. There are numerous dissenting chapels, several endowed schools with aggregately £3,029 a year, and charities £130.

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

Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822

Old-Swinford – a parish in the hundred of Halfshire, lower division, 1 mile S.S.E. from Stourbridge, 7 from Kidderminster, and 128 from London; containing 932 houses, exclusive of the town of Stourbridge, which is in this parish.

The church is a noble gothic structure, with a lofty handsome spire, containing a good ring of bells. Here is a free school, founded by Thomas Foley, Esq. who endowed it with about 1500 acres of land, and other emoluments. There were originally 60 boys on the foundation, but some of the leases having expired, by which the funds have been considerable increased, 10 more boys are admitted. The charity is under similar regulations to those of Christchurch, London. The living is a rectory; Rev. Thos. P. Foley, incumbent; instituted 1797; patron, Lord Foley. Population, exclusive of Stourbridge, 1801, 3766 – 1811, 4380 – 1821, 4980.

Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Worcestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Stourbridge
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Kidderminster
  • Poor Law Union: Stourbridge
  • Hundred: Halfshire
  • Province: Canterbury