West Bromwich All Saints, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to West Bromwich All Saints, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| West Bromwich All Saints, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
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| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | South Offlow |
| County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | West Bromwich |
| Registration District | West Bromwich |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1608 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1676 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Handsworth |
| Diocese | Lichfield |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Staffordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BROMWICH, WEST (All Saints), a town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Offlow South, S. division of the county of Stafford, situated about 6 miles (N. W.) from Birmingham, 4 miles (E.) from Dudley, and 4 (S.) from Walsall; adjoining the town of Wednesbury. The name has been variously written different periods as Bromwic, Bromwych,Bromich,Bromwhiche, and Bromwidge. There are many places of worship fordissenters of different denominations. The Wesleyans have five meeting-houses, of which the largest, Wesley Chapel, the Independents have four meeting-houses, the Baptists two, the Roman Catholics one; and the Primitive Methodists,Ranters, and others, have four or five small places of meeting. [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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
West Bromwich All Saints, Ancient parish, registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| WEST BROMWICH ALL SAINTS PARISH (1563) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1608-1659/60, 1813-1824, 1859-1868 | 1608-1659, 1795-1860, 1862 | 1608-1658, 1813-1830-1872 | |||
| FS | 1608-1659, 1676-1868 | 1608-1659, 1676-1837 | ||||
| IARC | 1608-1658 | 1608-1658 | 1608-1658 | |||
| JOIN | 1608-1837 | |||||
| NBI | 1563-1979 | |||||
| TGEN | 1608-1658 | 1608-1658 | 1608-1658 | |||
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1608-1920 Mar 1608-1975 Bur 1608-1956 available on microfilm only
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1676-1878 Mar 1676-1837 Bur 1676-1868
See Sandwell Archives
West Bromwich St Peter parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| WEST BROMWICH ST PETER PARISH (1858) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1858-1889 | 1861-1899 | ||||
| FMP | 1812-1900 | 1812-1900 | ||||
| FREG | 1858-1878 | 1858-1904 | ||||
St. Paul's, Golds Hill, which originated in a mission opened at the Golds Hill Ironworks in 1853, was in the parish of St. James until 1887.
West Bromwich St Paul (Golds's Hill) parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| WEST BROMWICH ST PAUL (GOLD'S HILL) (1853) PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1853-1920 | 1855-1865 | ||||
Non Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
West Bromwich Roman Catholic parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| WEST BROMWICH ROMAN CATHOLIC Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| NBI | 1734-1837 | |||||
West Bromwich Old Meeting House Independent registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| WEST BROMWICH OLD MEETING HOUSE INDEPEN Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| NBI | 1837 | |||||
West Bromwich Wesleyan Methodist parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| WEST BROMWICH WESLEYAN METHODIST Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| NBI | 1837 | |||||
Golds Green Primitive Methodist Chapel'''registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| GOLDS GREEN PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL (1839) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1839-1886 |
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High Street Wesleyan Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| HIGH STREET WESLEYAN CHAPEL (1815) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1815-1870 |
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Hill Top Wesleyan Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| HILL TOP WESLEYAN CHAPEL (1841) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1841-1868 |
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Cemetery Records[edit | edit source]
FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers 1859-1905
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in West Bromwich All Saints, Staffordshire Genealogy 1532/3 FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8[8]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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
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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
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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/WestBromwich/AllSaints/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 400-405. Date accessed: 06 November 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 25 August 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 28 September 2014.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (N-Z), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 23 September 2013.
- ↑ Staffordshire Coverage, The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 13 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Staffordshire Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 27 September 2013.
- ↑ 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
