Brown Edge, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Brown Edge, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Brown Edge, Staffordshire | |
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Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | North Pirehill |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Leek |
Registration District | Leek |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1845 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Leek |
Diocese | Lichfield |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Staffordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BROWN-EDGE, a chapelry in Norton-in-the-Moors parish, Stafford; near the Manchester and Birmingham railway, 3 miles N of Burslem. It was constituted in 1844.[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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Brown Edge St Anne formed 1844 from part of Norton le Moors, Staffordshire Genealogy
Brown Edge parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
FMP = Staffordshire Parish Register Collection (findmypast) - (£)[3] | |||||
FS = FamilySearch - free[4] |
BROWN EDGE PARISH (1845) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BIVRI | 1845-1908 | 1845-1906 | ||||
FMP | 1845-1901 | 1845-1901 | 1845-1900 | 1845-1900 | 1845-1904 | 1845-1904 |
FS | 1845-1943 |
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1845-1967 Mar 1845-1990 Bur 1845-1963
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap none Mar none Bur 1851-1852
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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]
Leek Poor Law Union, Staffordshire Genealogy
Probate records
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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
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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]
- ↑ 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales &st=Brown%20Edge
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 11 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 21 August 2014.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (A-M), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 18 September 2013.