Gratwich, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Gratwich, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Gratwich, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | South Totmonslow |
| County | Staffordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Uttoxeter |
| Registration District | Uttoxeter |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1755 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1680 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Uttoxeter |
| 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]
GRATWICH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Uttoxeter, S. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford, 4¾ miles(W. S. W.) from Uttoxeter. [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.
See also Staffordshire BMD
Church records[edit | edit source]
Gratwich 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] | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch - free[5] |
| GRATWICH PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1813-1907 | 1839-1906 | ||||
| FMP | 1813-1906 | 1813-1906 | 1755-1836, 1839-1903 | 1755-1836, 1839-1903 | ||
| FREG | 1813-1900 | |||||
| FS | 1680-1864 | 1680-1834 | ||||
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1680-1980 Mar 1680-1970 Bur 1680-1991
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1680-1869 Mar 1680-1834 Bur 1680-1839
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Gratwich, 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 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]
Uttoxeter 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/Gratwich/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 325-332. Date accessed: 26 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 17 September 2013.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (A-M), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 18 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
