Wolverhampton St Paul, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Wolverhampton St Paul is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Wolverhampton St Peter, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. '''Non-Church of England denominations identified in Wolverhampton St Paul include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Roman Catholic, 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 Paul parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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