Chesterton, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Chesterton, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Chesterton, Staffordshire | |
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Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | North Pirehill |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Wolstanton and Burslem |
Registration District | Newcastle under Lyme; Wolstanton |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1846 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Newcastle under Lyme |
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]
CHESTERTON, an ecclesiastical district, partly in the parish of Audley, union of Newcastle-under-Lyme, but chiefly in the parish of Wolstanton, union of Wolstanton and Burslem, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford. At Chesterton are places of worship for Wesleyans and Independents; at Alsager's Bank, about two miles and a half west of that village, is another place of worship for dissenters, and at Red-street a small Unitarian meeting-house. [1]
Chesterton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1846 from Audley, Staffordshire Genealogy Ancient Parish and Wolstanton, Staffordshire Genealogy Ancient Parish.
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]
Chesterton Holy Trinity formed in 1846 from parts of Audley, Staffordshire Genealogy and Wolstanton, Staffordshire Genealogy
Chesterton 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] | |||||
FREG = FreeREG - free[4] FREG - Search under Wolstanton |
CHESTERTON HOLY TRINITY PARISH (1846) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FMP | 1846-1901 | 1846-1901 | 1852-1901 | 1852-1901 | 1852-1900 | 1852-1900 |
FREG | 1846-1892 | 1852-1908 |
1852-1897 |
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BIVRI | 1852-1906 |
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1846-1969 Mar 1852-1984 Bur 1852-1946
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1846-1850 Mar none Bur none
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Chesterton, Staffordshire Genealogy 1532/3 FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8[5]
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]
Wolstanton and Burslem 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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 576-586. Date accessed: 29 October 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 18 August 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 21 August 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 18 August 2014.
- ↑ 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