Wolverhampton St Matthew, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
Wolverhampton St Matthew is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1846 from Wolverhampton St Peter, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

Two church districts, respectively named St. Matthew and St. Mark, were constituted in 1846, under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; and the erection of churches was commenced in the following year: each living is in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop, alternately, and has an income of £150. At Bilston, Pelsall, Wednesfield, and Willenhall are other incumbencies. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, Methodists of the New Connexion, Unitarians, Irvingites, and Roman Catholics. An act for a cemetery was passed in 1847, under which a company has purchased about 20 acres of land at Meredale, for the purpose.

From: 'Wollaston - Wolviston', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 643-649. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51422 Date accessed: 29 March 2011.

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.

Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
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 Rutland 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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Web sites
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