Great Wyrley Staffordshire Family History Guide
Great Wyrley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Cannock Ancient Parish.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1845
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WYRLEY (Great), a township in Cannock parish, and a chapelry including also Cheslyn-Hay extra-parochial tract, Stafford.
The township lies on the Walsall, Cannock, and Rugeley railway, 6½ miles N by W of Walsall; has a station, of the name of Wyrley, on the railway; and includes Wyrley-Bank, which has a post-office under Walsall. Real property, £8,462; of which £1,348 are in mines, and £700 in iron-works. Pop., 890. Houses, 166.
The chapelry was constituted in 1846. Pop., 2,067. Houses, 402.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160. Patron, the Vicar of Cannock. The church was built in 1845.
There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Online School Records
School records are a primary source for genealogists. The two types of records that are commonly available are admission registers and log books.
The admission registers of schools may be available from the 1870s, but more frequently from 1902. Usually shown under the date of entry, is the child’s name and address and his or her date of birth. Some registers, but not all, may also show the name and occupation of the parent or guardian, the name of the previous school attended and the reason for leaving.
For immigrant children the name of the previous school may uniquely provide the pupil’s exact place of origin.
These admission registers may enable the brothers and sisters of a pupil to be identified in a way that, with frequent names, would be difficult if not impossible from the civil registration records.
The log book may contain comments on the attendance of pupils, behaviour, discipline, the curriculum, attendance of teachers and absence for sickness etc., and the effect of epidemics and seasonal work on attendance. The names of individual pupils only occasionally appear in log books. The names and status of the teachers were recorded at the annual inspection, with a summary of the inspector’s report.
The following school records are available from Findmypast
Great Wyrley Council. School (Boys) 1894 to 1914 Admissions
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Penkridge
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Hansacre and Armitage
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Rugeley
- Poor Law Union: Penkridge
- Hundred: East Cuttlestone
- Province: Canterbury