West Bromwich Holy Trinity, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
West Bromwich Holy Trinity is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1841 from

West Bromwich All Saints, Staffordshire

Holy Trinity district church was erected at a cost of £3400, raised by subscription, aided by a grant of £500 from the Lichfield Diocesan Society; it is an elegant building of brick, with a square tower and pinnacles, and contains 930 sittings, whereof 430 are free: this church was consecrated in August 1841. The living is in the gift of five Trustees, and has been endowed with £1000 by Thomas Hood and Edwin Bullock, Esqrs.: a parsonage, the site of which, and that for the church, were given by George Silvester, Esq., of the Elms, was built in 1843. There are many places of worship for dissenters of different denominations. The Wesleyans have five meeting-houses, of which the largest, Wesley Chapel, is capable of holding 2000 persons: the Independents have four meeting-houses, the Baptists two, the Roman Catholics one; and the Primitive Methodists, Ranters, and others, have four or five small places of meeting. Nearly all the churches and meeting-houses have large schools attached to them; but there is no endowed school.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 400-405. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50835 Date accessed: 03 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
West Bromwich Holy Trinity was formed in 1841 from part of West Bromwich All Saints, Staffordshire EP

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1841-1964 Mar 1846-1955 Bur 1842-1943 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1844-1847 Mar none Bur 1844-1847

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Poor Law Unions
West Bromwich 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.

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