Wolverhampton St Mary, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Wolverhampton St Mary is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1843 from Wolverhampton St Peter, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. '''Non-Church of England denominations identified in Wolverhampton St Mary include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Jewish, Methodist New Connexion, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Unitarian, and Wesleyan Methodist. The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Wolverhampton, but the exact parish has not been identified: Baptist, Countess of Huntingdon Methodist, and Society of Friends/Quaker'''.

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
Wolverhampton St Mary was formed in 1842 from parts of Wolverhampton St Peter, Staffordshire

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1843-1947 Mar 1849-1939 Bur 1852-1953 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1843-1844 Mar none Bur none

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Wolverhampton 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/Wolverhampton/index.html