Codsall, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CODSALL (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union,and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (N. W.) from Wolverhampton. There is a place of worship for Independents.

The District church of Codsall Wood St Peter was formed from this parish in 1951.

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
Codsall St Nicholas parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1587-1963 Mar 1587-1973 Bur 1587-1948 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1673-1857 Mar 1673-1835 Bur 1673-1857

The District Church of Codsall Wood St Peter has no deposited registers; these 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/Codsall/index.html