Walsall St Peter, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Parish History
Walsall St Peter is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1842 from Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

St. Peter's district church, erected in 1840, at the end of Stafford-street, on a site given by Lord Hatherton, is in the early English style, and contains 1141 sittings, of which 700 are free; of the cost, £3500, the Earl of Bradford contributed £1000. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Walsall, and is endowed with the interest of £2000, with a glebe-house. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians, and two Roman Catholic chapels, one of which is a handsome Grecian building.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 444-449. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51372 Date accessed: 03 April 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.

See West Midlands BMD and Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Walsall St Peter was formed in 1842 from part of Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1841-1973 Mar 1845-1979 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1841-1861 Mar 1845-1849 Bur 1841-1861 Missing 1860 Bap &amp; Bur

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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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Web sites
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