Bushbury, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BUSHBURY, or Byshbury (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Penkridge, partly in the E. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, and partly in the N. division of that of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Wolverhampton.

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 Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Bushbury parish is also known as Bushbury St Mary Ancient parish.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Staffordshive Record Office.

Bushbury The Good Shepherd (Low Hill) Mission church of this parish was built about 1928. Records remain with the incumbent.

Bushbury St James (Fordhouses) Mission and district church of this parish was built about 1868. Records remain with the incumbent.

Records of the Coven Heath Mission Church of this parish remain with the incumbent.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Roman Catholic
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Penkridge 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
Bushbury on GENUKI