Rushall, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

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



Parish History
Rushall St Michael the Archangel is an Ancient Parish.

RUSHALL (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Walsall, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 1 mile (N. E. by N.) from Walsall.

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
Rushall St Michael Ancient Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1686-1968 Mar 1715-1982 Bur 1771-1961 (earlier years include BT's Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1660-1868 Mar 1660-1837 Bur 1660-1868

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

Parish registers for Rushall, 1686-1894 Microfilm copies of original records in the Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford, England. The parish church in Rushall is St. Michael. Staffordshire Record Office reference: D3845/1/1-16.

Baptisms 1686-1894 Marriages 1724, 1734-1769, 1771-1806, 1813-1869 Banns 1772-1812 Burials 1771-1812 FHL BRITISH Film 1526108 Items 23-32 Marriages 1869-1884 Burials 1813-1892 FHL BRITISH Film 1526109 Items 1-6

Bishop's transcripts for Rushall, 1660-1868 Microfilm of original records in the Staffordshire Record Office.

Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1660-1812. FHL BRITISH Film 421585 Item 3 Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1813-1868. FHL BRITISH Film 435834

Known Issue entries for the parish in England Births and Christenings 1538-1975 may be duplicated by erroneous entries for the event in indexing project (batch) number: system origin: England-VR source film number: 1526108 with incorrect place data entry as Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire

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

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