Lichfield St Chad, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Lichfield St Chad, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Lichfield St Chad, Staffordshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Lichfield; North Offlow |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Lichfield |
Registration District | Lichfield |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1635 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1659 | |
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]
Lichfield St Chad is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Curborough and Elmhurst. Non-Church of England denominations identified in Lichfield St Chad include: Methodist New Connexion and Primitive Methodist. The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Lichfield, but the exact parish has not been identified: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Society of Friends/Quaker.[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. 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]
Lichfield St Chad also known as Stow St Chad 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] |
LICHFIELD ST CHAD PARISH (1580) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1635-1946 | 1635-1933 | 1635-1925 | |||
FS | 1659-1877 | 1659-1837 | ||||
NBI | 1580-1897 |
Lichfield Record Office holds deposited parish registers Bap 1635-1957 Marr 1635-1963 Bur 1635-1953 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishops Transcripts Bap 1659-1892 Marr 1639-1837 Bur 1659-1892
Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
Lichfield Primitive Methodist Circuit registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
LICHFIELD PRIMITIVE METHODIST CIRCUIT (1840) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1840-1846 |
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Lichfield St Chad, 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/Lichfield/StChad/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ http://maps.familysearch.org/
- ↑ '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