Ettingshall, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Ettingshall, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
ETTINGSALL, an ecclesiastical district, partly in the parish of Sedgley, union of Dudley, and partly in the parish and union of Wolverhampton, N. division of the hundred of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 1 mile (W. S. W.) from Bilston. The Wesleyans have two places of worship.

Ettingshall Holy Trinity is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1837 from Sedgley, Staffordshire Ancient Parish,Wolverhampton St Peter, Staffordshire Ancient Parish and Bilston, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

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
Ettingshall Holy Trinity was formed in 1837

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Staffordshive Record Office.

Non-Conformist Churches
George St Wesleyan Methodist registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Dudley Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

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