Butterton (near Newcastle under Lyme), Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Guide to Butterton (near Newcastle under Lyme), Staffordshire family history and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BUTTERTON, an ecclesiastical district, partly in the parishes of Swynnerton and Trentham, union of Stone, and partly in the parish and union of Stoke-Upon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehilland of the county of Stafford, 2½ miles (S. by W.) from Newcastle-under-Lyme.

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

Census records

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

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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Butterton/index.html