Darlaston St George, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
Darlaston St George is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Darlaston, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

The ecclesiastical district of St. George, which comprises more than one-third of the whole parish, was constituted in October, 1844, under the act of 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; the benefice is in the patronage of the Crown and the Bishop of Lichfield, alternately. In 1845 another district, named Moxley, was formed out of Darlaston, Bilston, and Wednesbury, and the living of this is in the same patronage. There are four places of worship for Wesleyans, of which three were built by subscription, and one by Mr. John Wilkes, a native and resident; and the Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Ranters, have places of worship also. A national school, a British and foreign school, and a parochial school, have been established; and in connexion with the church and the various meeting-houses are Sunday schools, containing 1700 children.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 8-15. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50914 Date accessed: 04 April 2011.

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
Darlaston St George was formed in 1844 from Darlaston, Staffordshire (St Lawrence). The parish was abolished in 1973 and returned to St Lawrence. The church was subsequently demolished.

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1845-1973 Mar 1853-1973 Bur 1852-1908 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts No holdings

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Poor Law Unions
Walsall 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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Web sites
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