Sheen, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Sheen, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Sheen, Staffordshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | South Totmonslow |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Leek |
Registration District | Leek |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1595 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1660 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Alstonfield |
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]
Sheen is an Ancient Parish.
SHEEN, a parish, in the union of Leek, S. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford, 10 miles (E. by N.) from Winster. [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]
Church records[edit | edit source]
Sheen St Luke parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FS = FamilySearch - free[2] |
SHEEN PARISH (1660) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FS | 1660-1852 | 1660-1852 |
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1595-1991 Mar 1595-1996 Bur 1595-1939
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1660-1851 Mar 1660-1852 Bur 1660-1852
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Sheen, Staffordshire Genealogy 1532/3 FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8[3]
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]
Leek 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/Sheen/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 58-66. Date accessed: 05 November 2012.
- ↑ '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