Ipswich St Mary Stoke, Suffolk Genealogy

Guide to Ipswich St Mary Stoke ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Ipswich St. Mary Stoke is an Ancient Parish in the county of Suffolk. According to Genuki, this parish is in the borough of Ipswich along with many other churches. Suffolk churches has a lenthy article about this church and an array of pictures. View an additional picture of St Mary Stoke Parish Church by Alan Thompson from Panoramio along with a mapto provide a location.

Linda Walker wrote an article on the Local History of this area on the BBC website which encompasses this medieval church.

Resources
If you live in Suffolk you will have access to a variety of resources at local archives and libraries. For those who live further afield, one can access microfilm and online records at LDS Family History Centres. Refer to Suffolk_in_the_FHL_Catalog and in the FamilySearch Catalogue for available records.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The "England 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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Ipswich St. Mary Stoke parish records started in 1563 and the Bishop Transcripts began in 1698. The FHL film numbers are listed this way:


 * Parish Register transcripts, 1563-1761: # 991946 Items 5-7
 * Parish register transcripts, 1563-1850: # 991946 Item 4
 * Parish register printouts of Ipswich, Suffolk, England (St. Mary Stoke) ; christenings, 1813-1876: # 883930 Item 5

Census records
Refer to the Suffolk Census wiki article for general details about the census.

Poor Law Records
The Workhouse has a detailed section about the Ipswich workhouse for this area. A list of the inmates and the staff are provided from the 1881 census further down in the article.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Suffolk 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