Colwich, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Colwich, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Colwich, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | South Pirehill |
| County | Staffordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Stafford |
| Registration District | Stafford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1590 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1659 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Rugeley |
| Diocese | Lichfield |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Peculiar of Colwich |
| Location of Archive | |
| Staffordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
COLWICH (St. Michael), a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union, and N. division of the county, of Stafford, 3 miles (N. W. by N.) from Rugeley; containing, with Fradswell chapelry, the townships of Bishton, Moreton, Shugborough, and Wolseley,and part of those of Drointon, Great and Little Haywood, and Hixon. [1]
Colwich St Michael and All Angels is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Bromley, Pershall, Three Farms, Sugnall Parva, Sugnall Magna, Slindon, Podmore, Wootton, Aspley, Charnes, Chatcull, Chorlton with Stableford, Cold Meece, Coldmeece, Croxton, Great Sugnall, Hill Chorlton, Horseley, Horseley with Garmelo, Cotmere and Offley Hay, Little Sugnall, Mill Meece, Millmeece, and Walton.
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]
Colwich St Michael and All Angels parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FREG = FreeREG - free[2] | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch - free[3] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[4] |
| COLWICH PARISH (1590) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1813-1943 | 1837-1912 | 1813-1911 | |||
| FS | 1659-1871 | 1659-1871 | ||||
| NBI | 1590-1837 | |||||
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1590-1978 Mar 1590-1958 Bur 1590-2007
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1659-1868
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Colwich, 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 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]
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/Colwich/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 668-672. Date accessed: 30 October 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 17 September 2013.
- ↑ '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.
- ↑ 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
