Tipton St Martin, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Tipton St Martin is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Dudley Port, Great Bridge, Greatbridge, Horseley Heath, Princes End, and Toll End.

TIPTON (St. Martin), a parish, in the union of Dudley, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 1½ mile (N. E.) from Dudley, sometimescalled Tibbington. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, and Wesleyans.

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
Tipton St Martin parish registers 1578-1797 were originally Tipton St John but were transferred when St Martin became the Parish church as replacement for St John's. When this church closed it was united with Tipton St Paul, Staffordshire

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

Some of these records have been transcribed and are available for purchase through the The Staffordshire Parish Register Society and also at The Family History Library in Salt Lake City with catalog reference.

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1573-1962 Mar 1573-1983 Bur 1573-1989 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1672-1837 Mar 1672-1837 Bur 1672-1837

Tipton St John was well as being the original dedicatory name for this ancient parish 1578-1797 was formed as an ecclesiastical parish in 1854 for part of this Ancient Parish

Tipton St John (Princes End) parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1854-1978 Mar 1854-1979 Bur 1855-1868 Lichfield Record Office has no holdings of Bishop's Transcripts

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Cemetery Records
Alexandra Road Cemetery, Tipton

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1883-1899, 1909-1911, 1917-1960

Census Records

 * 1532/3 - A List of Families in 1532/3

Poor Law Unions
Dudley 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.

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Tipton/StMartin/index.html