Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire Family History Guide
Dudley St Thomas is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Worcestershire.
See also the entry for Dudley
Other places in the parish include: Darby-end.
Parish registers begin: 1541
Nonconformists include:
- Baptist
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- General Baptist
- Independent/Congregational
- Jewish
- Methodist New Connexion
- Particular Baptist
- Presbyterian Church in England
- Presbyterian Unitarian
- Primitive Methodist
- Roman Catholic
- Society of Friends/Quaker
- Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Brierley Hill Staffordshire
- Eve Hill
- Reddal Hill Staffordshire
- Netherton St Andrew
- Quarry Bank Staffordshire
- Kate’s Hill
- Rowley Regis Staffordshire
- Dudley Castle
- Pensnett Staffordshire
- Gornal Staffordshire
- Sedgley Staffordshire
Parish History
See Also Dudley, Worcestershire Family History Guide
Dudley St Thomas Parish Registers
Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Dudley St Thomas, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Dudley St Thomas & Queens Cross Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions 1664-1982
Nonconformist Registers
The Old Non-Parochial Registers of Dudley 1656 to 1837 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research The Registers comprise those of the Society of Friends, The Old Meeting House, The Independents, The Wesleyan Methodists, The Baptists and the Methodist New Connexion. Edited by Arthur A. Rollason. Printed by the Herald Press, 210, Wolverhampton Street, 1899. The Old Non-Parochial Registers of Dudley contain over Three Thousand entries of Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, and Burials of Nonconformists from 1656 to 1837
Free PDF Parish Register Books
A range of Free Parish Registers & Records, including many of the Phillimore range of Marriage registers, are available in the Digital Parish Records & Registers (PDFs) section of the Books & Maps area. There you can View the books by county and search the county books by parish. View all the Digital Parish Records & Registers (PDFs).
Crime & Punishment
Search online Worcestershire criminal records including records of prisoners, gaol and Quarter Sessions records with digitised images of the original records.
Worcestershire, Calendar of Prisoners
This wide‑ranging collection brings together almost three centuries of Worcestershire prison and criminal justice material. It includes early gaol lists, recognisances, indictments, presentments, and handwritten calendars from the 1600s and 1700s, as well as the later printed Calendars of Prisoners used in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Depending on the date, entries may note a person’s name, occupation, residence, the charge against them, details of their trial, or the sentence imposed. These records offer valuable glimpses into crime, poverty, and everyday life across the county.
To view the images of the original records, use the dropdown menu on the right-hand side of the Ancestry search page in the “Browse This Collection” box – the older gaol lists, recognisances, indictments and handwritten calendars are all hidden there with links to images of the original records.
Calendar of Criminal Prisoners 1756
Calendar of Criminal Prisoners in County Gaol 1762
Calendar of Prisoners 1660-1934
Calendar of Prisoners, Box 01 1890-1891
Calendar of Prisoners, Box 02 1892
Calendar of Prisoners, County Brideswell 1759-1827
Calendar of Prisoners, Handwritten Lists 1815
Calendar of Prisoners, Vol. 01 1901-1911
Calendar of Prisoners, Vol. 02 1912-1921
Indictments and Presentments 1700-1770
List of Those in County Gaol 1655-1656
Return of Prisoners Committed for Trial 1816-1820
Rough List of Cases and Sentences Awarded 1822
Worcester City, Gaoler´s List of Prisoners 1772-1839
Quarter Sessions Order Books
The Quarter Sessions Order Books record the names and cases of thousands of people who appeared before Worcestershire’s Justices of the Peace between the 1600s and the early 20th century whether as defendants, complainants, victims, witnesses, or parish officials involved in everything from minor offences and assaults to settlement disputes, bastardy cases, licences, and local administrative matters. Entries may note names, ages, dates, the nature of the complaint or offence, and the outcome of the case.
Worcester City Order Books 1632-1940
You may find the following books helpful …
Parish History
Darby End
Worcestershire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Darby-End, a village in Dudley parish, Worcester; near Dudley.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Historical Maps
Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
The full range of Worcestershire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Worcestershire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Worcestershire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.
Administration
- County: Worcestershire
- Civil Registration District: Dudley
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Kidderminster
- Poor Law Union: Dudley
- Hundred: Halfshire
- Province: Canterbury
County Archives
County Archives covering this parish include:
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
The Hive, Sawmill Walk, The Butts, Worcester, WR1 3PD
Tel: 01905 822866
Services provided: document copying, research and digitisation services – please contact the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service for more information.
Website: Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
County Maps
The Godfrey Edition reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. Many are taken from the highly detailed 1:2500 plans, reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile, showing individual houses, railways, factories, churches, mills, canals. Each map includes historical notes on the area. Alongside these large‑scale sheets, Alan Godfrey also publishes the smaller‑scale Inch‑to‑the‑Mile series, and a range of maps based on the OS five‑foot plans.
