Pelsall, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Pelsall, a parish in Staffordshire, on the Wyrley Canal, 3 miles NNE of Walsall, with a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Walsall. Acreage, 12 63; population, 3364, There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1840. There are coal mines in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £290. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church formerly belonged to the canons of Wolverhampton; it was rebuilt in 1844, and a new chancel was added in 1889. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Staffordshire | |
| Civil parish | Wolverhampton | |
| Hundred | Offlow | |
| Poor Law union | Walsall |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Pelsall
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Pelsall from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Pelsall are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Staffordshire newspapers online: