Wolverhampton St Peter, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Parish History
WOLVERHAMPTON(St. Peter), a parish, and the head of a union; comprising the borough of Wolverhampton,and the market-town of Bilston, in the N. division of the hundred of Seisdon; the townships of Featherstone, Hatherton, Hilton, and Kinvaston, in the E. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone; and Bentley, Pelsall, Wednesfield, and Willenhall,in the S. division of the hundred of Offlow; S. division of the county of Stafford. On the 15th of March, 1848, the township was divided into eight wards, namely, St. Peter's, St. Mary's, St. James',St. Matthew's, St. George's, St. John's, St. Paul's, and St. Mark's. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, Methodists of the New Connexion, Unitarians, Irvingites,and Roman Catholics.

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 Peter was large geographical Ancient Parish and formed many subsequent district and chapelry creations.

The earliest register Bap.Mar, Bur from 1538 is lost

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1603-1949 Mar 1603-1754, 1757-1948 (1754-1756 marriages are still with the incumbent at the church) Bur 1603-1862 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1799-1833 Mar 1813-1833 Bur 1799-1833

Contributor: 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

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.

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