Warslow, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Warslow is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1785 from Alstonfield, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Fawfieldhead.

WARSLOW, a chapelry, in the parish of Alstonfield, union of Leek, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 10 miles (E. N. E.) from Leek; containing 519 inhabitants. It lies on the road from Cheadle to Buxton. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £100; patron, the Vicar of Alstonfield; impropriator, Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart. The chapel, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a neat structure with a tower. The glebe-house was built by the present incumbent. A school, erected in 1728, is endowed with about £17 per annum.

From: 'Warmfield - Warsop', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 470-475. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51378 Date accessed: 30 March 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.

Church records
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Poor Law Unions
Leek 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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