Gus: > > Dudley was blessed with 6 CofE Churches/Parishes: > St Thomas - the 'historical' parish, from which were created later: > St Edmund (1844) > St James the Great, Eve Hill (1844) > St John, Kates Hill (1844) > St Luke (1876) > St Augustine, Holly Hall (1884) > St Edmund, though, merely returned itself as "pre-1800" - so I'd guess that > it is the 'other parish church', but it was really no more than a Chapel > of > Ease of St Thomas until 1844. > Not entirely. St Edmund *was* a chapel of ease to St Thomas from 1611-1844 , but before 1611 it was a fully-fledged independent parish. Its parish registers were quite separate, and survive for 1540-1611. I'm not sure, though, what happened in 1611. Best wishes Paul Prescott