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:
Microform: Christenings 1839-1906 Marriages 1839-1911 Burials1839-1916 Dudley Archives & Local History Service
Originals: Christenings 1839-1954 Marriages 1839-1997 Burials1839-1916 Dudley Archives & Local History Service
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 Society of Genealogists [68]

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

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Christchurch: BMSGH microfiche [53]
Christchurch: Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Lye & Wollescote Burial Ground: Register of burials 1904 (pt)-10(pt) Worcestershire Library and History Centre [52]
Christchurch: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 6 [Typescript.] - Published , 1987 - Author Wright, Mr & Mrs (trans) Society of Genealogists [59]

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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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:
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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