Wednesbury St Bartholomew, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Wednesbury St Bartholomew, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WEDNESBURY (St. Bartholomew), a market town and parish, in the union of West Bromwich, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 19 miles (S. S. E.) from Stafford, and 117 (N. W.) from London. Two new ecclesiastical parishes have been formed under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; called, respectively, St. John's and St. James'. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.

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
Wednesbury St Bartholomew was formerly a chapelry in Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire EP

Wednesbury St Bartholomew parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1569-1995 Mar 1562-1991 Bur 1561-1926 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1673-1844 Mar 1673-1836 Bur 1673-1844

Delves, The Good Shepherd, Staffordshire was a chapel of ease to this parish until 1875

Wednesbury St Andrew (Kings Hill) was formed as a Mission church to this parish.

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1853-1914 Mar none Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts No holdings

Wednesbury St Paul (Wood Green) was formed as a Mission church to this parish in 1875

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1875-1963 Mar 1876-1988 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts No holdings

Non-Conformist Churches
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church  registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Primitive Methodist Chapel (Fallings Heath)  registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Primitive Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Cemetery Records
Wood Green Cemetery

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1868-1873

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

 * 1532/3 - A List of Families in 1532/3

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Wednesbury/index.html