Willenhall St Giles, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Willenhall St Giles, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Willenhall St Giles, Staffordshire | |
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Type | Ancient Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | South Offlow |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Wolverhampton |
Registration District | Wolverhampton |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1642 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Wolverhampton |
Diocese | Lichfield |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Pre-1846 - Court of the Peculiar of Wolverhampton; Post-1845 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Staffordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
WILLENHALL
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]
Willenhall St Giles parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
WILLENHALL ST GILES PARISH (1642) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BIVRI | 1829-1901 | 1841-1900 | ||||
FMP | 1642-1901 | 1642-1901 | 1753-1761, 1841-1900 | 1753-1761, 1841-1900 | 1727-1901 | 1727-1901 |
FREG | 1642-1876 | 1727-1915 | ||||
FS | ~1829-1901 | |||||
WOLV | 1642-1837 | 1727-1837 |
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Willenhall St Giles, Staffordshire Genealogy 1532/3 FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8[5]
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]
Wolverhampton Poor Law Union, Staffordshire Genealogy
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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 20 August 2014.
- ↑ '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.
- ↑ 'Parish Register Indexes', The History of Wolverhampton: The City and Its People, accessed 20 August 2014.
- ↑ 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
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.