Tipton St Paul, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Tipton St Paul is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1842 from Tipton St Martin, Staffordshire Ancient 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
Tipton St Paul was formed in 1842 from part of Tipton St Martin, Staffordshire Ancient parish

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1839-1951 Mar 1853-1965 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office has no  holdings of Bishop's Transcripts

Tipton St Matthew was formed on 11th February 1881 from part of St Paul's parish. The church, in Dudley Road, was erected in 1876.

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

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

Poor Law Unions
Dudley 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/Tipton/StPaul/index.html