Wednesbury St Bartholomew, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

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



Parish History
WEDNESBURY (St. Bartholomew), a markettown and parish, in the union of West Bromwich, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 19 miles (S. S. E.) from Stafford, and 117 (N. W.) from London. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.

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
Wednesbury St Bartholomew was formerly a chapelry in Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire EP

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1569-1995 Mar 1562-1991 Bur 1561-1926 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1673-1844 Mar 1673-1836 Bur 1673-1844

Burials for St Bartholomew 1813-1926 have been transcribed by Staffordshire FreeREG and can be searched for free.

Delves, The Good Shepherd, Staffordshire was a chapel of ease to this parish until 1875

Wednesbury St Andrew (Kings Hill) was formed as a Mission church to this parish.

Baptisms for Wednesbury St Andrew (Kings Hill) 1853-1914 have been transcribed by Staffordshire FreeREG and can be searched for free.

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1853-1914 Mar none Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts No holdings

Wednesbury St Paul (Wood Green) was formed as a Mission church to this parish in 1875

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1875-1963 Mar 1876-1988 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts No holdings

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
West Bromwich 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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