Armitage, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ARMITAGE (St. John), with Handsacre, a parish, in the union of Lichfield, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 3 miles(E. S. E.) from Rugeley. There is a place of worship for Independents.

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 marriages and deaths. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district (formerly held at Lichfield) and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of Staffordshire BMD for further information.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Staffordshive Record Office.


 * Armitage St John the Baptist Ancient Parish Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Baptisms 1662-1967; Marriages 1662-1989; Burials 1662-1992
 * Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Baptisms 1623-1861; Marriages 1623-1836; Burials 1823-1861.

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

Non-Conformist Churches
Armitage Independent Chapel parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Cemetery Records
The following MIs were kindly contributed by Alf Beard:


 * Some Monumental Inscriptions for St. John the Baptist's Churchyard

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Lichfield 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
Armitage