Newcastle under Lyme St George, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Newcastle under Lyme St George, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Newcastle under Lyme St George is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1832 from Newcastle under Lyme Ecclesiastical Parish.

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 also Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Newcastle under Lyme St George parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Newcastle under Lyme St George was formed in 1832 formerly a chapelry of Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1832-1998 Mar 1837-1967 Bur 1829-1959 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1832-1874 Mar None Bur 1829-1874

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.

Poor Law Unions
Newcastle under Lyme 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/Newcastle/index.html