Bloxwich, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire Staffordshire Parishes



Parish History
BLOXWICH, a chapelry district, in the parish and union of Walsall, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 2 miles(N. N. W.) from Walsall, on the road to Stafford. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists; and, at Harden, a Roman Catholic chapel.

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
Bloxwich All Saints formed 1810 from Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire of which it was formerly a chapelry of that parish

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1733-1950 Mar 1843-1951 Bur 1733-1954 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1733-1873 Mar 1733-1869 Bur 1733-1872

Subsequent formations from this parish include

Bloxwich St James (Old Lane) formed 1904 registers not deposited

Bloxwich St Thomas (Mossley) formed 1959 register not deposited

Bloxwich The Holy Ascension formed as district church 1968 registers not deposited

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.

Bloxwich St Thomas Roman Catholic registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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.

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