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

Non-Conformist Churches
Bloomfield Wesleyan Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Canal St. Methodist New Connexion Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Dudley Port Primitive Methodist Chapel This Chapel was known as Tividale St. Methodist Chapel from 1870 onwards.Registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Dudley Port Wesleyan Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Gospel Oak Wesleyan Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Great Bridge New Connexion Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Great Bridge Wesleyan Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Park Lane Wesleyan Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Summerhill Primitive Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Tipton Green Wesleyan Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Tividale Street Methodist Chapel (Dudley Port) This Chapel was previously known as Dudley Port Primitive Methodist Chapel. Registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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