Ranton, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Ranton, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Ranton, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | South Pirehill |
| County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Stafford |
| Registration District | Stafford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1655 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1660 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Stafford |
| 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]
RANTON, or Ronton, a parish in the district and county of Stafford; on an affluent of the river Sow, 2¼ miles N by W of Haughton r. station, and 4¼ W by N of Stafford. It contains the hamlets of Hextells, Brough-Hill, Long Compton, Parknook, and Woodside. [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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Ranton All Saints 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] |
| RANTON ALL SAINTS PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1656-1877 | 1656-1877 | 1655-1876 | 1655-1876 | 1657-1876 | 1657-1876 |
| FREG | 1656-1911 | 1655-1916 | 1657-1911 | |||
| FS | 1655-1868 | 1655-1812 | ||||
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1655-1993 Mar 1655-1984 Bur 1655-1993
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1660-1868 Mar 1660-1837 Bur 1660-1868 missing 1840-1854 Bap/Bur
Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Ranton, 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]
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/Ranton/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 23 July 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 13 September 2013.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (N-Z), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 23 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
