Reference NumberPR33/11/3/1
Title'Parish book' apparently compiled by the Sedgley Benevolent Visiting Society
DescriptionUse photocopy in Local Studies collection at LD 929.3 or transcription located in the searchroom.
Contains details of poor families in the parish: names, trade, children, club, religious persuasion and other personal notes.
Also includes aims of the society (established 1831), directions for parochial visitation, names of visitors and boundaries of divisions of parish; list of gentlemen able to afford accommodation for horses; population figures for Segley and surrounding areas; table of fees; notes on rebuilding of Sedgley church; numbers of sittings available at Gornal, Cosely and Ettingshall; notes on charities; lists of communicants, 1833; details of church schools; lists of dissenting chapels, public houses (with names of occupiers) and pensioners; plan of pews in Sedgley church as altered in 1861 (at back).
Datemid 19th cent
AccessConditionsPhotocopy available (LD 929.3, R 21744) and transcription located in the searchroom. Also known as 'Liber Parochialis'
AccessStatusOpen
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
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