Wellington, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Wellington, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Wellington, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | North Pirehill |
| County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Stoke on Trent |
| Registration District | Stoke upon Trent |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1845 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Stoke upon Trent |
| 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]
Wellington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Hanley, Staffordshire Genealogy Ecclesiastical Parish. [1]
Two districts, respectively named Northwood and Wellington, were formed in 1845. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and other Methodists. [2]
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]
Hanley St Luke (Wellington) was formed in 1845 from part of Hanley, Staffordshire Genealogy St John
Wellington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[3] |
| WELLINGTON PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1848-1901 | 1854-1900 | ||||
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1848-1969 Mar 1854-1975 Bur no burial ground
Lichfield Record Office no holdings of Bishop's Transcripts
Census Records[edit | edit source]
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]
Stoke Upon Trent Poor Law Union, Staffordshire 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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ http://maps.familysearch.org/
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 396-401. Date accessed: 06 November 2012.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 11 September 2013.
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
