Brereton, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Brereton, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Brereton, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | East Cuttlestone; South Offlow |
| County | Staffordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Lichfield |
| Registration District | Lichfield |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1843 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1843 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Rugeley |
| Diocese | Lichfield |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Staffordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BRERETON, a chapelry district, in the parish of Rugeley, union of Lichfield, E. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, S. division of the county of Stafford, 1¼ mile (S. E.) from Rugeley. The Wesleyan Methodists have a place of worship. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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.
Staffordshire BMD have indexes for births marriages and deaths. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district (formerly held at Lichfield) and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of Staffordshire BMD for further information.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Brereton St Michael was formed in 1838 from Rugeley, Staffordshire
Brereton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FREG = FreeREG - free[2] FREG - Search under Rugeley | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[3] |
| BRERETON ST MICHAEL PARISH (1843) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1869-1956 | 1846-1936 | 1843-1964 | |||
| NBI | 1643-1835 | |||||
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1843-1996 Mar 1846-1978 Bur 1843-1964
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1843-1871 Mar none Bur 1843-1871
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Brereton, Staffordshire Genealogy 1532/3 FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8[4]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Lichfield Poor Law Union, Staffordshire
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A. , A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 357-362. Date accessed: 16 October 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 15 August 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 September 2013.
- ↑ Ann J. Kettle, A List of Families in the Archdeaconry of Stafford, 1532-3 (Stafford: Staffordshire Record Society, 1976). FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8
