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I don't have even the most fleeting, tenuous connection with West Bromwich, myself.

But I just ran across this when googling around for a question on Lost Ancestors, and Jonesey at least liked it, so I offer it for anyone else who does have a connection to that place.

http://www.archive.org/details/westbromwichpari01west

click on the left on "Read Online"

http://www.archive.org/stream/westbromwichpari01west#page/n3/mode/2up

There's also a variety of other formats to choose from.

published 1909
WEST BROMWICH.
1608-1658
Staffordshire
Parish Register Society.
West Bromwich Parish Register
Vol. I.

You can read through the book page by page (arrows at bottom) or leaf through it and stop when you like (arrow at top), and there is a search function that seems to work very well.

There's also this bad scan of the same thing:

http://www.archive.org/stream/westbromwichpari01west/westbromwichpari01west_djvu.txt

but it seems to be relatively intact.


Probably not new to old hands at the area, but may be new to somebody!



just a bit of text from the beginning of the book, as an example (it's garbled in that scan, so I've sorted it out):

Baptisms.
No. 1 Anno Domini, 1608. fol. 2.

1608, Jan. 4. Jane, d. of Walter Stevens.
" Jan. 12. Elizabeth, d. of Willm. & Mary Stanlye, Gent.

Anno Domi., 1609.
1609, Aug. I. Margaret, d. of John Dolphin.
1610, Sept. I. Marye, d. of Willm. & Mary Stanley, Gent
" Sept, 23. Willm., s. of Symon Warde.
" Dec. 10. Phillip, d. (sic) of John Edwards.
" Dec. 10. Alice, d. of John Stenleye.
" Dec. 10. Elinor, d. of Adam Barton.