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.

Parish History
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'''.

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.

Church Records
West Bromwich All Saints, Ancient parish, registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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:

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:

Non Conformist Churches

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

Cemetery Records
Heath Lane Cemetery

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers 1859-1905

Census Records

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

Poor Law Unions
West Bromwich 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/WestBromwich/AllSaints/index.html