Waterfall, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Waterfall, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Waterfall, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
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| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | South Totmonslow |
| County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Ashbourne |
| Registration District | Ashbourne |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1602 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1661 | |
| 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]
Waterfall St James is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Calton, Staffordshire Genealogy is a chapelry of Waterfall. Other places in the parish include: Calton, Winkhill, and Calton in Waterfall.
WATERFALL (St. James), a parish, in the N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 7 miles (E. S. E.) from Leek, on the road to Ashbourn. At Winkhill is a place of worship for Wesleyans, and at Waterhouses one for Primitive Methodists. [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]
Waterfall 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] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[5] |
| WATERFALL PARISH (1602) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1602-1859 | 1602-1859 | 1603-1876 | 1603-1876 | 1602-1878 | 1602-1878 |
| FREG | 1602-1783 | 1603-1772 | 1602-1783 | |||
| FS | 1661-1856 | 1661-1837 | ||||
| NBI | 1602-1837 | |||||
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Waterfall, 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. 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]
Ashbourne Poor Law Union, Derbyshire Genealogy
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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/Waterfall/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 484-486. Date accessed: 05 November 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 21 August 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 16 September 2013.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (N-Z), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 23 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
