Quarry Bank, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Quarry Bank Christ Church was formed in 1844 from Kingswinford, Staffordshire and Brierley_Hill,_Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Quarry Bank like this:

QUARRY-BANK, a village and a chapelry in Kings-winford parish, Stafford. The village stands ½ a mile S E of Brierley-Hill r. station, and has a post-office under Brierley-Hill. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Pop. in 1861, 4, 790. Houses, 916. The living is a p.curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847, at a cost of £3,000; and is in the early English style. There are chapels for Primitive Methodists and New Connexion Methodists, and national schools.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

See West Midlands BMD and Staffordshire BMD

Church records
For earlier registers Kingswinford, Staffordshire

Dudley Archives has deposited Parish registers Bap 1845-1980 Marr 1847-1973 Bur 1847-1969

New Churchyard Burials 1907-1972

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Stourbridge Poor Law Union, Worcestershire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Staffordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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