Caverswall, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Caverswall, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Caverswall, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | North Totmonslow |
| County | Staffordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Cheadle |
| Registration District | Cheadle |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1552 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1663 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Cheadle |
| 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]
CAVERSWALL (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Cheadle, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (E.) from Longton with the township of WestonCoyney with Hulme. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; and at Caverswall Castle is a private Roman Catholic chapel.[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.
Please see Staffordshire BMD
Church records[edit | edit source]
Caverswall St Peter
Caverswall parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| CAVERSWALL PARISH (1552) Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1552-1895 | 1559-1861 | ||||
| FMP | 1552-1895 | 1552-1895 | 1560-1901 | 1560-1901 | 1552-1901 | 1552-1901 |
| FREG | 1552-1607, 1613-1643, 1662-1703 | 1552-1607, 1613-1643, 1662-1703, 1837-1858, 1861-1893 | 1552-1607, 1613-1643, 1662-1682, 1700, 1813-1904 | |||
| FS | 1663-1864 | 1663-1842 | ||||
| NBI | 1552-1837 | |||||
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1552-1978 Mar 1552-1998 Bur 1552-2001
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1663-1864 Mar 1663-1842 Bur 1663-1864
Caverswall Roman Catholic parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| CAVERSWALL ROMAN CATHOLIC Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| NBI | 1598-1832 | |||||
Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in
full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.
Census records[edit | edit source]
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]
Cheadle Poor Law Union, Staffordshire
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]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Caverswall/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 538-542. Date accessed: 18 October 2012.
- ↑ '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.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 1 June 2014.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (A-M), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 18 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 September 2013.
