Wednesfield, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes



Parish History
Wednesfield is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1755 from chapelry in Wolverhampton St Peter, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Wednesfield Heath and Heath Town.

WEDNESFIELD, a township, in the parish and union of Wolverhampton, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 2 miles(N. E. by E.) from Wolverhampton. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Lady Huntingdon's Connexion.

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
Wednesfield St Thomas

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1751-2003 Mar 1849-1997 Bur 1751-1996 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1799 1835 Mar none Bur 1799-1835

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Poor Law Unions
Wolverhampton 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

Reference
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