ROWLEY REGIS

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
ROWLEY-REGIS, a parish in the northern division of the hundred of SEISDON, county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (S. E.) from Dudley, containing 6062 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Clent, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Giles. There is a place of worship for Baptists. Lady Elizabeth Monnins, in 1703, founded a free school, with an endowment of £15 a year, for the education of twenty-four children; and in 1790, George Macklinnan gave a rent-charge of £21, which is applied to teaching thirty children. Coal is obtained in the vicinity. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
A chapel in Staffordshire (N.Seisdon Hundred) in Clent Ancient Parish (Clent was in Worcestershire in time of Domesday Book, soon thereafter considered in Staffordshire (N.Seisdon Hundred). Clent was transferred to Worcestershire in 1844 for civil purposes.) Rowley Regis had separate civil identity early in Staffordshire.
It was a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1848. Abolished civilly in 1966, part to Dudley County Borough (as County Borough becomes associated with Staffordshire) & Ancient Parish, part to West Bromwich County Borough (associated with Staffordshire) & Ancient Parish, part to create Warley County Borough (associated with Worcestershire) & Civil Parish and part to Halesowen Municipal Borough & Ancient Parish, Worcestershire.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO970874
About 2 miles from junction 2 of the M5, on the B4171 from Blackheath

Parish Church:
St. Giles, Junction Hawes Lane & Church Rd

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1905, Archdeaconry & Diocese of Birmingham (1905 - *) [25]

Hundred:
North Seisdon, Staffordshire [44]

Poor Law Union:
Dudley [3] [25]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1772-1812	[27]
	Marriages	1754-1812	[27]
	Burials	1772-1812	[27]
	General	1539-1684; 1685-1772	[27]

No Parish Registers held at Worcestershire Record Office. The original registers are at West Bromwich Library.[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1606 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1539-1812
	Marriages	1539-1812

Register Copies:
Transcript: 1539-1812 Dudley Archives & Local History Service

At Sandwell Community History and Archives Service :-
Transcripts: Christenings 1539-1914 Marriages 1539-1914 Burials 1539-1914
Microform: Christenings 1914-63 Marriages 1914-74 Burials 1914-70
Originals: Christenings 1539-1974 Marriages 1539-1974 Burials 1539-1970 Banns: 1770-81, 1957-70

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Warws., Leics. & Rutland QM :
Births 1623-1837, 1636-1815, 1646-1762, Marriages 1648-1837, 1659-1794, 1668-1711, Burials 1659-1837, 1661-1836, 1636-1781 (includes Tamworth, Handsworth, West Bromwich, Rowley Regis, Lichfield, Wednesbury, Aldridge, Staffs.; Chipping Camden, Stow on the Wold, Sezincote, Glos.; Ratcliffe on Soar, Notts.; Warley, Oldbury, Salop; Shipston on Stour, Tredington, Old Swinford, Dudley, Stourbridge, Worcs.) [Microfilm.] - Published London : World Microfilms Publications, 1989

BTs Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1606-07, 1619-21, 1624-27, 1632-36, 1639-41, 1660-1701 (gaps), 1820-37, Christenings & Burials 1838-42, Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1842-44, 1846-58, Christenings & Burials 1859-74 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1539-1812 - Published : Staffordshire Parish Registers Society, 1912-15
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1606-1700 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1960
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1813-49 - Published Staffordshire Parish Registers Society, 2006 - Authors: Willetts, A (trans.) & Bloore, P D (trans.)
Marriages (Index) 1685-1714: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.
St. Giles: Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1539-1812 [Microfiche.] - Published : Staffordshire Parish Registers Society - Edition Fiche copy of 1912 edn. - Author: Staffordshire Parish Registers Society (trans.)

Nonconformist:
Wesleyan: Copies: 1863-1969; Originals:1863-1969 Sandwell Community History and Archives Service

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St Giles BMSGH microfiche [53]
St. Giles: Staffordshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 17 - Published : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1998 - Author: Page, Alan & Pauline et al. 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.
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:
1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Surname index 1851 census Staffordshire vol. 16 : Dudley registration district part 1 - Rowley Regis & Tipton - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1999 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.) 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 here.

Other Sources:
A Rowley Regis rent roll, 1556 : in Collections for a history of Staffordshire, 1936 - Published Staffordshire Record Society 1936 Society of Genealogists

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