Hilderstone, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Hilderstone Christ Church is anEcclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1833 from Stone, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. HILDERSTONE, a liberty, in the parish and union of Stone, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N.division of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (E. N. E.)from Stone. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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
Hilderstone Christ Church was formed in 1833 from Stone Parish

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1830-1999 Mar 1841-2000 Bur 1833-2009 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1833-1871 Mar 1841-1845 Bur 1833-1871

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Stone 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
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/Hilderstone/index.html