Netherton St Andrew, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire  Worcestershire Parishes

Parish History
NETHERTON, a district chapelry in the united parishes of St. Thomas and St. Edmund, Dudley, union of Dudley, Lower division of the hundred of Halfshire, Dudley and E. divisions of the county of Worcester. Here are places of worship for Wesleyans, Baptists, Methodists of the New Connexion, and Primitive Methodists.

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
Netherton St Andrew parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To search for the Dudley records inputted by Staffordshire FreeREG - within a search select County as Staffordshire &amp; within place select Dudley Staffs. Although most of Dudley is within Worcestershire - many of it's records are for people living in the surrounding Staffordshire Parishes. The Parish itself was always completely surrounded by Staffordshire and has been incorporated with other Staffordshire Parishes for Civil Registration purposes since 1837.

Dudley St Andrew Netherton for earlier registers see Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire Dudley Archives has deposited Parish registers Bap 1844-1973 Marr 1845-1976 Bur 1842-1968.

Poor Law Unions
Dudley Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Worcestershire 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place. England Jurisdictions 1851

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