Tettenhall Regis, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Tettenhall Regis is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Bovenhill, Compton, Pendeford, Wrottesley, Tettenhall Clericorum, Tettenhall Wood, and Pirton with Trescott.

TETTENHALL-REGIS (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Seisdon, partly in the N. and partly in the S. division of the hundred of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 1¾ mile (N. W.) from Wolverhampton. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

A History of the Parish of Tettenhall, in the County of Stafford (1894) has been digitised by Google Books - free.

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
Tettenhall Regis St Michael and All Angels Ancient parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1602-1968 Mar 1602-1948 Bur 1602-1946 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1687-1859 Mar 1687-1836 Bur 1687-1859

Tettenhall Wood Christ Church was formed in 1868 from this parish

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1868-1988 Mar 1868-1989 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office no holdings of Bishop's Transcripts

Tettenhall Wood also had a mission church Castlecroft Good Shepherd

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1955-1976 Mar none Bur no burial ground

Tettenhall Christ the King was formed as a mission church in this parish from 1939 No records are deposited but are with the incumbent at the church

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Seisdon 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/Tettenhall/index.html