Bilston St Mary, Staffordshire Genealogy
England 
Staffordshire Staffordshire Parishes
Guide to Bilston St Mary, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Bilston St Mary, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | North Seisdon |
| County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Wolverhampton |
| Registration District | Wolverhampton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1848 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
| 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]
Bilston, market town, W. Staffordshire, 2½ miles SE. of Wolverhampton. It contains eccl. dists. of Bilston St Leonard, Bilston St Luke, and Bilston St Mary.[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]
Bilston St Mary parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = Staffordshire Parish Register Collection (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[3] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[4] |
| BILSTON ST MARY PARISH (1747) Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1660-1900 | 1660-1900 | 1848-1901 | 1848-1901 | ||
| FREG | 1848-1864 | 1848-1852 |
1848-1975 | |||
| NBI | 1747-1837 | |||||
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1848-1970 Mar 1848-1976 Bur 1848-1975
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts none held
Census records[edit | edit source]
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
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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/Bilston/StMary/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles, Date accessed and adapted: 22 October 2013.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 21 August 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 26 September 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 September 2013.
