Harlaston, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes



Parish History
Harlaston is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1846 from a chapelry in Clifton Campville, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

HARLESTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Clifton-Campville, union of Tamworth, N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 4¼ miles (N.) from Tamworth.

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
Harlaston St Matthew formerly a chapelry in Clifton Campville, Staffordshire formed 1846

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1679-2006 Mar 1679-2005 Bur 1679-2006 partially BT's in earlier years Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap,  Mar, Bur 1679-1870 missing years 1843 &amp; 1844

Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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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