AMBLECOTE

Index
Descriptive Notes
Status
Location
Parish Church
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Hundred
Poor Law Union
Parish Registers
Bishops' Transcripts
Register Copies
Nonconformist
Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents
Census Records
Schools Records
Directories

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

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:
At BMSGH Shop
Holy Trinity 

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Holy Trinity

At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Holy Trinity 

At Society of Genealogists
AMBLECOTE (Holy Trinity) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 4 [Typescript.]   IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 4   Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1985   Author Dunn, C et al. (trans.)       Acc. no. 53716  

Census Records:
All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.

Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Library and History Centre, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit. 

A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses.  Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.

Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.

Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:

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.

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]

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Last updated on 2nd February 2012

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