Moxley Staffordshire Family History Guide
Moxley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Darlaston Ancient Parish and Wednesbury St Bartholomew Ancient Parish and Bilston Ecclesiastical Parish.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1838
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Coseley
- Wednesbury St James
- Bilston
- Willenhall St Stephen
- Wednesbury St Bartholomew
- Darlaston
- Bilston St Mary
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MOXLEY, a village in Wednesbury parish, and a chapelry partly also in Darlaston and Wolverhampton parishes, Stafford.
The village stands near the Oxford, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton railway, 1 mile SE of Bilston; is a modern place, sharing in the manufactories of the Black country; and has a station, jointly with Bradley, on the railway, and a post-office under Wednesbury.
The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Pop. in 1861, 3,857. Houses, 749. Pop. of the Wednesbury portion, 1,123. Houses, 209. Pop. of the Darlaston portion, 2,311. Houses, 455. The property is sub-divided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £213. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is modern and neat.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Maps
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Walsall; West Bromwich
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Walsall
- Poor Law Union: Wolverhampton
- Hundred: North Seisdon; South Offlow
- Province: Canterbury