Ilam, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Guide to Ilam, Staffordshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Ilam is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Castern, Throwley, Rushley, and Caston

ILAM (Holy Cross), a parish, in the N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (N. W.) from Ashbourn.

Civil Registration
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
Ilam parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Census records

 * 1532/3 - A List of Families in 1532/3

Poor Law Unions
Ashbourne Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

Probate records
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain