Weston upon Trent, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Weston upon Trent, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Weston upon Trent, Staffordshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | South Pirehill |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Stafford |
Registration District | Stafford |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1538 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1666 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Stone |
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]
WESTON-UPON-TRENT, a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union and N. division of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles (N. E.) from Stafford. [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]
Weston upon Trent St Andrew 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] |
WESTON UPON TRENT PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FMP | 1588-1876 | 1588-1876 | 1592-1837 | 1592-1837 | 1588-1877 | 1588-1877 |
FREG | 1813-1911 | 1813-1915 | 1813-1899 | |||
FS | 1666-1864 | 1666-1859 |
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1583-1969 Mar 1583-1985 Bur 1583-1899
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1666-1884 Mar 1660-1833 Bur1666-1884
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Weston upon Trent, 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[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/WestonuponTrent/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 524-527. Date accessed: 06 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.
- ↑ 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
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