Codsall Staffordshire Family History Guide

Codsall is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1756 from a chapelry in Tettenhall Regis Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Oaken.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1587
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1673

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Codsall

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CODSALL, a village and a parish in Wolverhampton district, Stafford. The village stands near the boundary with Salop, the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, and the Birmingham and Shrewsbury railway, 5 miles NW of Wolverhampton; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Wolverhampton. The parish includes also the township of Oaken; and has two other post offices, Codsall-Wood and Oaken, under Wolverhampton. Acres, 2,580. Real property, £8,678. Pop., 1,204. Houses, 274. Wrottesley Hall here is the seat of Lord Wrottesley. There is a strong sulphurous spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £146. Patron, Lord Wrottesley. The church was early English, with Norman traces; was recently rebuilt, excepting the tower; is now a very beautiful structure; and contains tombs of the Wrottesleys. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £58.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Codsall near Wolverhampton Bakers Plant Nurseries 1907
Codsall near Wolverhampton Bakers Plant Nurseries 1907

Oaken

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Oaken, a township in Codsall parish, Stafford; 4 ¾ miles NW of Wolverhampton. It has a post-office under Wolverhampton. Pop., 314. Houses, 73.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Codsall – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of St. Nicholas Church, Codsall, Staffordshire
Author: Harris, Pauline; Women’s Institute. Codsall Women’s Institute (Staffordshire); Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry; Church of England. Parish Church of Codsall (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Codsall – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Codsall with Oaken, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Staffordshire, Codsall – Church records ( 7 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Codsall, 1673-1857
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Codsall (Staffordshire)

Church briefs
Author: Brown, John Blamire

Codsall parish register
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Codsall (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Codsall, parish registers : St. Nicholas, 1874-1900
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Codsall (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Codsall, 1587-1876
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Codsall (Staffordshire)

Parish registers for Codsall, 1837-1917
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Codsall (Staffordshire)

Parish registers for Codsall, 1886-1918
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Codsall (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Codsall – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Codsall, Staffs., Eng

England, Staffordshire, Codsall – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Removal orders for Codsalls, 1775
Author: Codsall (Staffordshire, England)

England, Staffordshire, Codsall – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax returns for Codsall, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Staffordshire)

Land tax returns for Oaken, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wolverhampton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Tettenhall
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Brewood
  • Poor Law Union: Seisdon
  • Hundred: South Seisdon
  • Province: Canterbury