Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Walsall St Matthew is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Bridge Ward, St George Ward, Walsall Borough, Walsall Foreign, and Windmill.

WALSALL (St. Matthew), a parish, and the head of a union, in the S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford; comprising the market-town and newly-enfranchised borough of Walsall, 18 miles (S. E. by S.)from Stafford, and 118 (N.W.) from London. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyans,and Unitarians, and two Roman Catholic chapels.

Walsall St Paul was formed as a district church in 1875 (see records below) subsequently deconsecrated it forms part of the Crossing Shopping Centre.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Chapelries of Walsall St Matthew
Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Staffordshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Staffordshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

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

Cemetery Records
Queen St Cemetery

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1857-1868

Rycroft Cemetery 

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1894-1895

Census Records

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

Poor Law Unions
Walsall 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
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Walsall/index.html