Moxley, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Guide to Moxley, Staffordshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Parish History
MOXLEY, a village in Wednesbury parish, and a chapelry partly also in Darlaston and Wolverhampton parishes, Stafford. The village stands near the Oxford, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton railway, 1 mile S E of Bilston.

Moxley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 fromDarlaston, Staffordshire Ancient Parish and Wednesbury St Bartholomew, Staffordshire  Ancient Parish and  Bilston, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

See West Midlands BMD and Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Moxley All Saints was formed in 1845 from parts of Bilston, Staffordshire (St Leonard) Darlaston, Staffordshire and Wednesbury St Bartholomew, Staffordshire parishes

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1838-1977 Mar 1851-1992 Bur 1851-1960 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1832-1842 Mar none Bur none

Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Wolverhampton Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Walsall Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Staffordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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