Marston with Whitgreave, Staffordshire Genealogy: Difference between revisions
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
Marston St Leonard was formed as a chapelry in 1777 and was a chapelry of Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire Other places in the parish include: Whitgreave. Whitgreave, Staffordshire was formed out of this parish in 1844.
MARSTON, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Mary, union of Stafford, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 2¾ miles (N.) from Stafford; containing 178 inhabitants. It comprises about 1500 acres of land, the soil of which is a rich loam; a considerable extent of waste was inclosed in 1800, when 125 acres were given to the parishioners in lieu of their right of common. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £140; patron, the Rector of St. Mary's. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £242, payable to the trustees of the Stafford charities, and the small tithes for £100. The chapel is a neat edifice of stone, with a campanile turret.
From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 263-266. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51136 Date accessed: 09 April 2011.
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]
Marston St Leonard
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1565-1964 Mar 1565-1983 Bur 1565-1978
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1661-1862 Mar 1661- Bur 1661-1863 missing Bap/Bur 1854-1856
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
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.
Web sites[edit | edit source]