West Bromwich Holy Trinity, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to West Bromwich Holy Trinity, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
West Bromwich Holy Trinity is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1841 from West Bromwich [All Saints] Ancient Parish. '''Non-Church of England denominations identified in West Bromwich Holy Trinity include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist. Countess of Huntingdon Methodist is a non-Church of England denomination located somewhere in West Bromwich, but the exact parish has not been identified'''.

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
West Bromwich Holy Trinity was formed in 1841 from part of West Bromwich All Saints, Staffordshire EP

West Bromwich Holty Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1841-1964 Mar 1846-1955 Bur 1842-1943 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1844-1847 Mar none Bur 1844-1847

Poor Law Unions
West Bromwich 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/WestBromwich/index.html