Kinver Staffordshire Family History Guide
Kinver is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.
Alternative Names: Kinfare
Other places in the parish include: Compton, Whittington, and Whittington Manor
Parish Church: St Peter
Parish registers begin: 1560
Nonconformists in Kinver include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Churchill in Halfshire Worcestershire
- Upper Arley
- Alveley Shropshire
- Amblecote
- Old Swinford Worcestershire
- Cookley Worcestershire
- Wombourn
- Hagley Worcestershire
- Wolverley Worcestershire
- Kingswinford
- Pedmore Worcestershire
- Enville
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Kinfare, or Kinver, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Wolverhampton district, Stafford. The town stands on the river Stour and the Stafford canal, near the boundary with Worcester, 3¾ miles NW of Churchill r. station, and 4 WSW of Stourbridge.
It was anciently a place of considerable importance, long a borough and a market town, noted for the manufacture of woollen cloth; figures now in connexion with the extensive ironworks of Hyde and Whittington, where spades, shovels, and other wares, are largely made; and has a post office under Stourbridge, a church, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a grammar school, a national school, and fairs on the last Tuesday of Feb., the second Tuesday of May, and the third Tuesday of Nov.
The church stands on a lofty site; is ancient, with a tower; was restored in 1836; and contains some ancient monuments.
The grammar school has £114 a year from endowment; and other charities have £128.
Pop. of the town in 1861, 2,163. Houses, 449.
The parish includes the manor of Whittington, and the hamlet of Compton. Acres, 8, 790. Real property, £20,543; of which £5,160 are in iron works, and £76 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 2,872; in 1861, 3,551. Houses, 712. The increase of pop. arose from the operations of Freehold Land Societies.
The manors belong to H. Wentworth Foley, Esq., M.P., and to the Earl of Stamford.
A Saxon camp, 900 feet long and 600 feet wide, with a barrow, and with a notched stone 12 feet round and 6 feet high, is on a small plain on the S side of Kinfare-Edge.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £200. Patrons, Trustees.
The sub-district contains also two other parishes. Acres, 16, 391. Pop., 4, 832. Houses, 963.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Directories
Kinver Bennett’s Business Directory for Worcestershire, 1914
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
Kinver Board School (Later Kinver Council School) (Junior Boys) 1894 to 1914 Admissions
Kinver Council School (I) 1905 to 1914 Admissions
Kinver Infants School 1880 to 1905 Admissions
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Wolverhampton
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Trysull
- Poor Law Union: Seisdon
- Hundred: South Seisdon
- Province: Canterbury