Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Walsall St Matthew is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Bridge Ward, St George Ward, Walsall Borough, Walsall Foreign, and Windmill.

WALSALL (St. Matthew), a parish, and the head of a union, in the S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford; comprising the market-town and newly-enfranchised borough of Walsall, 18 miles (S. E. by S.)from Stafford, and 118 (N.W.) from London. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyans,and Unitarians, and two Roman Catholic chapels.

Walsall St Paul was formed as a district church in 1875 (see records below) subsequently deconsecrated it forms part of the Crossing Shopping Centre.

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
Walsall St Matthew Ancient Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1646-1965 Mar 1663-1982 Bur 1662-1678, 1737-1985 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1673-1858 Mar 1673-1847 Bur 1673-1858 missing transcripts 1831/1835 all events

Walsall St Paul was formed 1875 from part of this parish

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1874-1951 Mar 1875-1992 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office

St Andrew (Birchills) parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

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

St Luke's Mission Church parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

St Mary &amp; All Saints (Palfrey) parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

St Mary &amp; All Saints (Caldmore) 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
Queen St Cemetery

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1857-1868

Rycroft Cemetery 

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1894-1895

Census Records

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

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.

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/Walsall/index.html