Walsall Wood St John, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Walsall Wood St John is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Shelfield, Walsall Wood and Sheffield, and Walsall and Shefield.

WALSALL-FOREIGN, a township, in the parish and union of Walsall, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 3½ miles (N.) from Walsall, on the road to Lichfield; containing 13,457 inhabitants. It comprises the hamlets of Great and Little Bloxwich, Birchills, Coldmore, Horden, WalsallWood, and the Windmill-Streets, in the manor of Walsall; and Goscote, which is a manor of itself. The living of Walsall-Wood is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Walsall, and has a net income of £50, with a glebe-house. The church, dedicated to St. John, was built in 1837, at a cost of £1000, on a site given by the Earl of Bradford, who also contributed £300; the remaining £700 were obtained by grants from societies. It contains 430 sittings, all of which, with the exception of 88, are free. At Bloxwich is another incumbency.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 444-449. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51372 Date accessed: 03 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
Walsall Wood St John was formed from Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire EP in 1845

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1835-1967 Mar 1845-1960 Bur 1837-1912 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
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.

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

Web sites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.