Bushbury, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BUSHBURY, or Byshbury (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Penkridge, partly in the E. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, and partly in the N. division of that of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Wolverhampton.

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 Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Bushbury St Mary Ancient parish

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1662-1908 Mar 1662- 1906 Bur 1662-1908 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1662-1868 Mar 1662-1848 Bur 1662-1868 Missing 1858-1863 Bap/Bur

Bushbury The Good Shepherd (Low Hill) Mission church of this parish was built about 1928 Records remain with the incumbent.

Bushbury St James (Fordhouses) Mission and district church of this parish was built about 1868 and records remain with the incumbent.

Coven Heath Mission Church of this parish records remain with the incumbent.

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap none deposited Mar 1978-1983 Bur no burial ground.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Roman Catholic
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Penkridge 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
Bushbury on GENUKI