WARLEY WIGORN

Status:
A township in Worcestershire (Halfshire Hundred) in Halesowen Ancient Parish, which was in Worcestershire and Shropshire until 1844, but entirely Worcestershire thereafter. The township was a separate Civil Parish in 1866 and abolished in 1884 to help create Warley Civil Parish.[ [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO997877
About 7 miles west of central Birmingham. A very fragmented parish which included Rood End, Langley Green, Londonderry and Causeway Green.

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

Poor Law Union:
West Bromwich (1836-84) [3] [25]

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:
Oldbury, including Quinton, Warley, Warley Salop & Warley Wigorn; And Handsworth (inc Perry Barr)
1871 Census on CD-Rom Piece Nos. 2968 to 2974 ; Including Surname Index BMSGH microfiche

1841 51 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1841-1901 Sandwell Community History and Archives Service

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Abstracts of admissions and surrenders 1716-1858 [19th cent.]; Account book re legal transactions 1842-90; Court roll 1716-1836

Directories:
WARLEY-WIGORN, a hamlet in that part of the parish of HALES-OWEN which is in the lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 3 miles {N. E. by E.) from Hales-Owen, containing 878 inhabitants. John Moore, in 1797, bequeathed £100, now producing £9 a year, for which fourteen poor children are educated. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 9th February 2010

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