PEDMORE

Descriptive Notes:
Pedmore, on the outskirts of Stourbridge, is perhaps today perceived merely as a dormitory suburb of Birmingham. In fact it has a long history appearing in the Domesday Book as "Pevemore".

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Transferred in 1974 to West Midlands [25]
Now in the Dudley Metropolitan Borough.

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO912821
About 1½ miles S.E. of Stourbridge town centre
Wychbury is near the village. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Peter, Pedmore Lane

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1]

Hundred:
Lower Halfshire [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Bromsgrove [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Oldswinford; Lye; Cradley (WOR); Halesowen; Hagley; Kinver (Staffordshire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1539-1898	[5]
	Marriages	1539-1960	[5]
	Burials	1539-1963	[5]
	Banns	1824-1962	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1754-1823	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1612 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1539-1875
	Marriages	1539-1875

Register Copies:
At Dudley Archives & Local History Service :
Microform: Christenings 1539-1898 Marriages 1539-1960 Burials 1539-1963
Originals: Christenings 1539-1898 Marriages 1539-1960 Burials 1539-1917
Index to Registers, 1539-1886 - photocopies

At Society of Genealogists [68] :
St. Peter : Christenings 1539-1886, Marriages & Burials 1540-1886, banns c. 1756-1833, 1842-43, 1851-65, 1876-85, overseers & parish constables 1679-1855, churchwardens 1598-1889; translation of entry in Domesday book [Typescript.] - Published , 1995 - Author King, W Wickham (trans.)

St. Peter : Burials 1539/40-1886; MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 2 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1982 - Author: Williams, F W (trans.)

St. Peter: Christenings 1540-1898, Marriages 1540-1752, 1754-1960, Burials 1540-1963, banns 1754-1962, will of John Cartwright 1648, parish accounts & minutes 1679-1717, 1723-1855, order of exchange of land in Pedmore 1875 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1999

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Peter BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Peter Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Inscriptions on memorial stones in church & churchyard [1887] Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

St. Peter: B 1539/40-1886; MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 2 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1982 - Author: Williams, F W (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:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

1851 Census Worcestershire, vol. 10 Bromsgrove transcript & surname index : part 1 Stoke Prior & Bromsgrove (part); part 2 Belbroughton, Clent, Hagley, Pedmore, Frankley, Hunnington, Romsley, Tutnall & Cobley, Bromsgrove (part); part 3 Tardebigg, Tutnal & Cobley, Bentley Pauncefoot, Webheath, Redditch & Alvechurch - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1993-5 - Author Friend, A F (trans.) Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Overseers accounts & minutes 1679-1717
Order of exchange 1875
Overseers accounts & minutes 1723-1855

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 here.

Other Sources:
Hearth tax returns for Dudley & Stourbridge 1664 - 1666 - 1674 - Published Kingswinford : P E Chandler, 1992 - Author Chandler, Peter (trans.) Society of Genealogists
See also Register Copies above for various items at Society of Genealogists

Directories:
PEDMORE, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 1½ mile (S. by E.) from Stourbridge, containing 307 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £9.10, and in the patronage of Lord Foley. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a very ancient structure, with some remains of Norman architecture. About 1699, a free school was founded and endowed with £6 per annum, by Thomas Foley, Esq. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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