Bilston St Luke, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire Staffordshire Parishes

Guide to Bilston St Luke, Staffordshire family history and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Bilston, market town, W. Staffordshire, 2½ miles SE. of Wolverhampton. It contains '''eccl. dists'''. of Bilston St Leonard, Bilston St Luke, and Bilston St Mary.

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
Bilston St Luke was formed in 1845 from Bilston, Staffordshire (St Leonard) The parish was abolished in 1922 and reunited with St Leonard

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1849-1972 Mar 1852-1969 Bur 1852-960 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts None held

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.

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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