AMBLECOTE

Descriptive Notes:

The spelling Amblecoat is sometimes found [44] Elmelecote in the Domesday Book

Directories:
AMBLECOAT, a hamlet in that part of the parish of OLD SWINFORD which is in the southern division of the hundred of SEISDON, county of STAFFORD, ½ a mile (N.) from Stourbridge, containing 1157 inhabitants. [Typographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
A hamlet in Staffordshire (S.Seisdon Hundred) & in Oldswinford Ancient Parish which was otherwise entirely Worcestershire (Halfshire Hundred). Oldswinford ecclesiastically known as 'Old Swinford'. Amblecote a separate Civil Parish in 1866 in Staffordshire, so that Oldswinford was entirely Worcestershire thereafter. Separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1842* from Old Swinford Ancient Parish (including area Worcestershire township of Wollaston). Ecclesiastically refounded 1860. Abolished civilly in 1966, part to Dudley County Borough (as the County Borough becomes associated with Staffordshire) and Ancient Parish and part to Stourbridge Municipal Borough & Civil Parish, Worcestershire. It is now in the Dudley Metropolitan Borough. [25] [5]
* The parish website gives the date as 1845. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO900850
On the N.E. side of Stourbridge on the A491

Parish Church:
Holy Trinity, Junction High St.& Vicarage Rd.

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1921, Archdeaconry of Dudley & Diocese of Worcester (1921 - *) [25]

Hundred:
Seisdon, Southern Division [15]

Poor Law Union:
Stourbridge [25]

Parish Registers:
No parish registers are held at Worcestershire Library & History Centre. The original registers are at Dudley Archives and Local History Service (See below)

Banns:
See entry for Oldswinford - none for Amblecote

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1904 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [12]

Register Copies:
Christenings 1842-91 Marriages 1846-86 Burials1844-75 Dudley Archives and Local History Service

Nonconformist:
Full Gospel Church, Brettell Lane: Marriages 1986-89 Dudley Archives and Local History Service

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Holy Trinity BMSGH microfiche [53]
Holy Trinity Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Holy Trinity: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 4 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1985 - Author Dunn, C et al. (trans.) Society of Genealogists

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk at most record offices. You are strongly advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
Many commercial organisations have issued CDs and DVDs covering all the censuses from 1841 to 1901.

Some repositories offer census details on microfiche as listed below:
1851 61 71 1891-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
Worcestershire 1891 census returns: Stourbridge registration district RG 12/2299-2310 [Microfilm.] Published London Public Record Office 2003 Society of Genealogists

Schools Records:
A handlist of the records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found at home.

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Last updated on 19th March 2008

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