Elford, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Elford, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Elford, Staffordshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | South Offlow |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Lichfield |
Registration District | Lichfield |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1558 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1558 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Tamworth |
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]
ELFORD (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Lichfield, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (E. by N.) from Lichfield.[1] Elford St Peter is an 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.
Staffordshire BMD have indexes for births marriages and deaths. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district (formerly held at Lichfield) and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of Staffordshire BMD for further information.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Elford parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FMP = Staffordshire Parish Register Collection (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
FREG = FreeREG - free[3] | |||||
FS = FamilySearch - free[4] | |||||
NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[5] |
ELFORD PARISH (1558) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FMP | 1558-1872 | 1558-1872 | 1559-1751, 1756-1876 | 1559-1751, 1756-1876 | 1558-1876 | 1558-1876 |
FREG | 1813-1872 |
1813-1872 |
1813-1872 |
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FS | 1663-1870 | 1663-1847 | ||||
NBI | 1558-1837 |
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1558-2006 Mar 1558- 2005 Bur 1558-2006
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap1663-1864 Mar 1663-1845, 1871 Bur 1663-1864
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Elford, Staffordshire Genealogy 1532/3 FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8[6]
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]
Lichfield 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]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Elford/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 154-158. Date accessed: 30 October 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 23 July 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 26 September 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.
- ↑ 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