Stafford Christ Church, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Stafford Christ Church is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

Christchurch, of which the first stone was laid by the late Earl of Harrowby, in November, 1837, has been endowed as a district church with £1300 in the three and a half per cent, consols, by the rector, in whom the patronage is vested; it is a neat structure of cruciform shape, in the Norman style, containing 600 sittings, of which 300 are free. Churches have likewise been erected in the hamlets of Marston, Salt, and Whitgreave. There are places of worship for Presbyterians, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyans of the Old and New Connexion.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 164-170. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51293 Date accessed: 07 April 2011.

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.

See Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Stafford Christ Church was formed in 1844 from Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire The church was demolished in 1979. the parish is now at Rowley Street in a shared ecumenical Anglican/Methodist church building.

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1839-1976 Mar 1845-1979 Bur 1839-1892 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1839-1872 Mar 1849-1851 Bur 1839-1871 missing 1856, 1867 Bap/Bur

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Stafford Poor Law Union

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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