Codsall, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Codsall St Nicholas is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1756 from chapelry in Tettenhall Regis, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Oaken

CODSALL (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (N. W.) from Wolverhampton; containing, with the township of Oaken, 1096 inhabitants. The parish comprises 2869 acres, whereof 1568 are in Codsall township; the soil is loamy; about one-third pasture, and the rest arable: stone is quarried for building. The road from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury passes along the south-western boundary. The village is picturesquely seated on an eminence, and there are several neat villas. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £146; patron, Lord Wrottesley; impropriator, the Duke of Sutherland, whose tithes have been commuted for £172. 13. 6. The church is a handsome edifice, consisting of a chancel and north aisle, separated by very fine pointed arches; the chancel contains a monument, erected in 1630, on which rests a recumbent effigy of Walter Wrottesley. There is a place of worship for Independents. A school was founded in 1716, by Dorothy Derby; and a national school is supported by subscription. Two sulphureous springs here, are much used; one, remarkably situated in Codsall wood, issues from the stump of an oak-tree, which forms the basin.

From: 'Cockington - Colchester', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 654-659. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50888 Date accessed: 25 March 2011.

Civil Registration
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Poor Law Unions
Seisdon Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Probate records
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