Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Stafford St Mary is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Hopton and Coton. Non-Church of England denominations identified in Stafford St Mary include: '''Christians, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Particular Baptist, Plymouth Brethren, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a non-Church of England denomination located somewhere in Stafford, but the exact parish has not been identified'''.

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 St Mary parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1559-1980 Mar 1559-1984 Bur 1559-1984 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1674-1868 Mar 1674- 1851 Bur 1674-1867

Stafford St Chad, Staffordshire and other district churches and mission churches were formed from the parish

Stafford St Bertelin was built in 1856 as a mission church and is now a district Church

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1958-1989 Mar 1971-1990 Bur none

Stafford St Paul (Forebridge) parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Stafford St Paul parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Stafford St Thomas (Castletown) parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

St John the Evangelist (Whitgreave) parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Cemetery Records
Stafford Prison Burial Grounds (Executions)

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1793-1914

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Census Records

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

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
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/Stafford/StMary/index.html