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

Wednesbury St Bartholomew, Staffordshire
Wednesbury St Bartholomew Staffordshire.jpg
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred South Offlow
County Staffordshire
Poor Law Union West Bromwich
Registration District West Bromwich
Records begin
Parish registers: 1561
Bishop's Transcripts: 1673
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Walsall
Diocese Lichfield
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Staffordshire Record Office
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Parish History[edit | edit source]

WEDNESBURY (St. Bartholomew), a market town 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. Two new ecclesiastical parishes have been formed under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; called, respectively, St. John's and St. James'. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.[1]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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

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

FREG = FreeREG - free[2]
FS = FamilySearch - free[3]
NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[4]
WEDNESBURY ST BARTHOLOMEW PARISH (1561) Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
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FREG 1569-1828, 1882-1884
1813-1863, 1926-1934
1569-1926
FS 1673-1844
1673-1836


NBI



1561-1977

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

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.

WEDNESBURY ST ANDREW (KINGS HILL) PARISH Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

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FREG 1853-1914




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


Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

  ST MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (1852) Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

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FREG



1888-1895


Primitive Methodist Chapel (Fallings Heath) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

  PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL (FALLINGS HEATH) (1866) Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

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FREG 1866-1967





Primitive Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

  PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL (1873) Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

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FREG 1873-1844




Cemetery Records[edit | edit source]

Wood Green Cemetery[2]

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1868-1873

Census records[edit | edit source]


Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.


Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]

West Bromwich Poor Law Union,Staffordshire

Probate records[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites[edit | edit source]

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Wednesbury/index.html

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 494-498. Date accessed: 06 November 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 16 August 2014.
  3. ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (N-Z), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 28 September 2013.
  4. ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Ann J. Kettle, A List of Families in the Archdeaconry of Stafford, 1532-3 (Stafford: Staffordshire Record Society, 1976). FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8

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