Thorpe Constantine, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
St Constantine is an Ancient Parish and an estate church within the grounds of Thorpe Hall.

THORPE-CONSTANTINE (St. Constantine), a parish, in the union of Tamworth, N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (N. E.) from Tamworth; containing 42 inhabitants. It comprises 953a. 1r. 4p.; the soil in some parts is a moderately light loam, and in others a clayey mixture resting upon a bed of yellow sand. The road from Tamworth to Ashby-de-la-Zouch runs for about half a mile through the south-western extremity of the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £5. 5. 5., and in the gift of Capt. William Inge: the tithes have been commuted for £230, and the glebe contains 100a. 3r. 8p. The church, of which the body was rebuilt in 1778, has a square tower surmounted by a lofty spire.

From: 'Thorpe-Abbots - Thoydon, Mount', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 343-346. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51339 Date accessed: 31 March 2011.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Thorpe Constantine like this:

THORPE-CONSTANTINE, a parish in Tamworth district, Stafford; 4 miles NE of Tamworth r. station. Post town, Tamworth. Acres, 953. Real property, £1,891. Pop., 54. Houses, 5. The manor, with T. Hall, belongs to Lieut.-Col. W. Inge. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £89. Patron, Lieut.-Col. W. Inge.

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.

Staffordshire BMD have indexes for births. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district may have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district or Cannock Registration Offices and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of Staffordshire BMD for further information.

Church records
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1539-2005 Mar 1539-2000 Bur 1539-2002 Entries for 1626-1667 are missing Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1662-1863 Mar 1662-1867 Bur 1662-1879

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Tamworth Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

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.

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Web sites
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