Croxall, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Croxall, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Croxall, Staffordshire | |
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![]() Croxall St John the Baptist Staffordshire | |
Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | North Offlow; Repton and Gresley |
County | Derbyshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Tamworth |
Registration District | Burton upon Trent; Tamworth |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1678 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1651 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Hartshorn |
Diocese | Lichfield |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Derbyshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
CROXALL (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Tamworth, partly in the N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, and partly in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, S. division of the county of Derby, 7½ miles (N.) from Tamworth; containing, with the township of Catton, in Derby, and that of Oakley, in Stafford.[1]
CROXALL, or Croxhall, a township in the district of Tamworth and county of Derby; and a parish in the districts of Tamworth and Burton-upon-Trent, and counties of Derby and Stafford. The township lies on the river Meese, adjacent to the Derby and Birmingham railway, 6¼ miles N of Tamworth; and has a station on the railway. The parish contains also the townships of Oakley and Catton; and its post town is Elford, under Tamworth. The church is old but very good.[2].
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]
Croxall St John the Baptist Ancient parish in both counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire
Croxall parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FS PR's = FamilySearch Parish Registers | |||||
NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[3] |
Croxall St John the Baptist Parish Online Records | ||||||
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FS PR's |
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NBI | 1836-1837 |
Derbyshire Record Office reference D1130 has deposited registers Bap 1719-1993 Mar 1720-1753, 1837-1967 Burials 1678-185 1720-1993
Lichfield Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1651-1864 Marr 1651-1854 Bur 1651-1865
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
None
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]
Tamworth Poor Law Union, Staffordshire Genealogy
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Derbyshire 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]
Croxall on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848), pp. 737-742. Date accessed: 30 October 2012.
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870. Date accessed: 1 July 2103.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 September 2013.
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