Trysull, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Trysull, a parish, with a village, in Staffordshire, 5½ miles SW of Wolverhampton, on the borders of Salop and Worcestershire. It has a post office under Wolverhampton; money order and telegraph office, Wombourne. It contains the hamlet of Seisdon. Acreage, 2951; population, 554. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £220 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1889. It has a low square tower, and contains an ancient stone font Seisdon workhouse is in the parish.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Trysull

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Trysull from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Trysull (All Saints))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Trysull 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:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser

Villages, Hamlets, &c