Ettingshall, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Guide to Ettingshall, Staffordshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Parish History
ETTINGSALL, an ecclesiastical district, partly in the parish of Sedgley, union of Dudley, and partly in the parish and union of Wolverhampton, N. division of the hundred of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 1 mile (W. S. W.) from Bilston. The Wesleyans have two places of worship.

Ettingshall Holy Trinity is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1837 from Sedgley, Staffordshire Ancient Parish,  Wolverhampton St Peter, Staffordshire Ancient Parish and  Bilston, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

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
Ettingshall Holy Trinity was formed in 1837

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1835-1961 Mar 1847-1990 Bur none no burial ground Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1835-1856 Mar none Bur none

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.

Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Dudley Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

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 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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