Apologies to NL for posting this here - if it is in the wrong place please move it.
However, I feel that this is an appropriate place as it is inevitable that if you have Black Country ancestry you also have Shropshire ancestry - probably due to the mass migrations here from Shropshire during the late 18th and first half of the 19th centuries due to the change in work patterns during the industrial revolution.
My own ancestors have been mainly from the Black Country for as far back as easily available records go, but there have been a few 'intruders' from Shropshire along the way! Curiously there have been few from other areas (just as well as we don't want any 'Brummies' in our tree! - curiously there have been few migrations into the area from places like Warwickshire - Northern Worcestershire I can understand but again not much activity apart from movement from places like Belbroughton, Bromsgrove etc towards Stourbridge (Old Swinford) - possibly explained by the vicar of Clent at one point also being vicar of Rowley Regis and insisting marriages take place at Clent.
Many of the villages in Shropshire were very small - as an example Wem was one of the bigger ones with a population of around 2000 in About 1800. Makes you wonder when you look at Dudley when the vicar records in the register around 1813/4 that he baptised over 300 children in ONE day!
Additionally, and you may be interested to know if you don't have them, most of the registers published by the Shropshire Parish Register Society are now out of copyright and available on the Internet - I can post links if that is appropriate....(there are also some Staffordshire ones eg Rowley Regis and West Bromwich among others)....
Perhaps another tree is needed ......'Shropshire Connections'???????