Hammerwich, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Hammerwich, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Hammerwich, Staffordshire | |
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Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | South Offlow |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Lichfield |
Registration District | Lichfield |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1724 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1727 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Lichfield |
Diocese | Lichfield |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Lichfield |
Location of Archive | |
Staffordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Hammerwich St. John the Baptist is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1737 from chapelry in Lichfield St Michael, Staffordshire Genealogy Ecclesiastical Parish.
HAMMERWICH (St. John), a parish, in the union of Lichfield, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from Lichfield. [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.
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]
Hammerwich St John the Baptist was formed in 1737 and was formerly a chapelry of Lichfield St Mary until 1729 and of Lichfield St Michael from 1729-1737
Hammerwich parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£) | |||||
FMP = Staffordshire Parish Register Collection (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
FREG = FreeREG - free[3] | |||||
FS = FamilySearch - free[4] |
HAMMERWICH PARISH ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (1724) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BIVRI | 1720-1900 | |||||
FMP | 1720-1899 | 1720-1899 | 1727-1900 | 1727-1900 | 1726-1900 | 1726-1900 |
FREG | 1724-1970 | 1724-1939 | 1724-1937 | |||
FS | 1727-1744, 1774-1865 | 1727-1744, 1777-1810, 1817-1834 |
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1724-1970 Mar 1724-1967 Bur 1724-1950
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1727-1865 Mar 1727-1835 Bur 1727-1865
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Hammerwich, 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]
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/Hammerwich/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 387-391. Date accessed: 29 October 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 12 August 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 10 July 2014.
- ↑ '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