LYE

Descriptive Notes:
Otherwise 'The Lye'. See also the entry for Wollescote.

Status:
A township in Oldswinford Ancient Parish, known ecclesiastically as 'Old Swinford'. A separate Civil Parish in 1866 and a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1839: It was ecclesiastically refounded in 1841. Transferred in 1974 to West Midlands
[25] and [The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO923844
1 mile east of Stourbridge along A458
Careless Green is a small village adjoining Lye. [57]

Parish Church:
Christchurch

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

Hundred:
Lower Halfshire [11] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Stourbridge (originally rated in Oldswinford, separately rated soon after 1836-1930)[3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Kingswinford (Staffordshire); Cradley; Pedmore; Oldswinford [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1839-1906	[5]
	Marriages	1839-1911	[5]
	Burials	1839-1916	[5]

Register Copies:
At Dudley Archives & Local History Service
Microform: Christenings 1839-1906 Marriages 1839-1911 Burials1839-1916
Originals: Christenings 1839-1954 Marriages 1839-1997 Burials1839-1916

At Society of Genealogists [68]
LYE (Christchurch) : Christenings 1839-1906, Marriages 1839-1911, Burials 1839-87, 1892, 1902, (Lye & Wollescote cemetery): funeral certificates 1914-16 [Microfilm.]   Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1999

Nonconformist:
At Worcestershire Record Office [12]
Unitarian: Christenings 1895-1990 Marriages 1895-1990 Deaths 1895-1990

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At BMSGH Shop
Christchurch

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Lye and Wollescote Cemetery and Chapels
Christ Church

At Worcestershire Library and History Centre 
Christchurch [51]
Lye & Wollescote Burial Ground: Register of burials 1904 (pt)-10(pt) [52]

At Society of Genealogists [59]
LYE, Stourbridge (Christ church) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 6 [Typescript.]   IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 6   Published , 1987   Author Wright, Mr & Mrs (transcription)

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:
Lye & Wollescote 1841 Dudley Archives & Local History Service

1851 - 81 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
Lye 1891-1901 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

1851 census Worcestershire, vol. 1 Stourbridge RD, part 2 Stourbridge sub-district including Wollaston, Wollescote, Upper Swinford, Amblecote [transcript & surname index HO 107/2035] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1996 - Author Friend, A F Society of Genealogists

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
High Street School
Log book - 1878-83 - Ref: BA 1017/25

Lye Unitarian Church Sunday School
Sunday School Prize list -c1920s] - Ref: BA 9962
Class Registers - 1924-54 - Ref: BA 9962

National School
Log books - 1863-1916 - Ref: BA 531/11

Orchard Lane School
Admission Registers - 1930-1958 - Ref: BA 3827/(i)(ii)
Logbooks - 1882-1913 - Ref: BA 3633
Logbooks - 1896-1939 - Ref: BA 2151
Logbooks Boys - 1882-1911 - Ref: BA 1017/26
Logbooks Girls - 1882-1911 - - Ref: BA 1017/27
Logbooks Girls - 1901-1919 - Ref: BA 1017/28
Logbooks Infants - 1913-1931 - Ref: BA 1017/29

A handlist of other records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

Other sources:
"Lye & Wollescote Cemetery Chapels"  by  Jean Weston & Marlene Price. Available by mail order from matthew@wmhbt.org.uk

Directories:
LYE-WASTE, a chapelry in that part of the parish of OLD SWINFORD which is in the lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 1½ mile (E.) from Stourbridge. The population is returned with the parish. The chapel was erected by the late Thomas Hill, Esq., and is licensed, but not consecrated; it is calculated to contain about two thousand persons: the appointment of the minister belongs to the Hill family. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Unitarians. The village derives its distinguishing name from having been erected on the waste, and consists of numerous cottages, chiefly inhabited by workmen employed in the iron and coal works, &c., with which the district abounds. Several of the inhabitants are engaged in making nails, this being a species of manufacture which extends through a wide district, including the towns of Stourbridge and Dudley, and their neighbourhoods, which, abounding to a great extent in coal and iron-ore, afford the necessary materials for this branch of business; the nails being afterwards dispersed over all parts of the kingdom. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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