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Staffordshire Lookup Requests / Re: 1806 marriage Joseph BANNISTER/Catharine HOLDEN at St Matthew, Walsall
« on: Tuesday 25 February 25 15:51 GMT (UK) »
Re Parish Registers for St Matthew's Walsall, the last time I checked the Registers were still with the church, there is a microfilm version of the registers, but the images are not of high quality with some entries impossible to read, much to my annoyance as a number of my ancestors were baptised, married or buried there.
After a small fire at St Matthews, as well as a couple of break ins I did suggest to Staffordshire Archives and Heritage that it might be good idea if they tried to persuade the incumbent minister to deposit them at Stafford given the historic nature of the registers they hold. I am unsure whether this happened as the registers don't appear in the online catalogue, however both Stafford and Walsall Archives have the registers on microfilm with the caveat of poor quality stated above.
After a small fire at St Matthews, as well as a couple of break ins I did suggest to Staffordshire Archives and Heritage that it might be good idea if they tried to persuade the incumbent minister to deposit them at Stafford given the historic nature of the registers they hold. I am unsure whether this happened as the registers don't appear in the online catalogue, however both Stafford and Walsall Archives have the registers on microfilm with the caveat of poor quality stated above.