Willenhall St Stephen, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
Willenhall St Stephen is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1846 from Wolverhampton St Peter, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

Two districts, named respectively St. Stephen's and Holy Trinity, were endowed in 1846 by the Ecclesiastical Commission: each contains a population of about 3000, and the living of each is a perpetual curacy; net income, £150; patrons, the Crown and the Bishop of Lichfield, alternately. There are places of worship for Baptists and Weslfeyans; and national and British schools.

From: 'Willand - Willian', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 577-579. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51408 Date accessed: 29 March 2011.

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
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Wolverhampton 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 Rutland 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
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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