Aldridge, Staffordshire Genealogy
England Staffordshire
Staffordshire Parishes
Guide to Aldridge, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Aldridge, Staffordshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | South Offlow |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Walsall |
Registration District | Walsall |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1660 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1660 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Walsall |
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]
ALDRIDGE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Walsall, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (N. E. by E.) from Walsall.[1]
Notes and Collections Relating to the Parish of Aldridge, in the County of Stafford (1884) has been digitised by Internet Archive - free.
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.
See West Midlands BMD and Staffordshire BMD
Church records[edit | edit source]
Aldridge St Mary the Virgin Ancient Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
ALDRIDGE ST MARY THE VIRGIN PARISH (1660) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BOYD | 1654-1749 | |||||
FMP | 1647-1901 | 1647-1901 | 1660-1901 | 1660-1901 | 1574-1900 | 1574-1900 |
FREG | 1771-1900 | 1660-1901 | 1771-1900 | |||
FS | 1660-1856 | 1660-1837 | ||||
NBI | 1660-1865 |
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1660-1970 Mar 1660-1994 Bur 1660-1934
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1660-1856 Mar 1660-1837 Bur 1660-1856 (missing transcripts 1853). Some stray baptisms from 1647 recorded on flyleaf of 1660 register.
Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire FreeREG and can be searched for free.
Aldridge St Mary (Tynings lane) Mission church formed about 1936 No known registers
Aldridge St Thomas formerly a mission church of Aldridge St Mary the Virgin became district church about 1969 no deposited registers
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
Aldridge Wesleyan Methodist Chapel parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL (1852) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1852-1961 |
Deposited parish registers at Walsall Local History Centre.
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Aldridge, 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]
Walsall 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/Aldridge/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 31-34. Date accessed: 12 October 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 23 July 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 15 March 2014.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (A-M), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 18 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