Woodford Grange, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
WOODFORD-GRANGE, an extra-parochial liberty, in the S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and of the county of Stafford; containing 14 inhabitants, and comprising 345 acres of land.

From: 'Woodchester - Woodgreen', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 652-654. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51424 Date accessed: 25 March 2011.

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.

Church records
None this is an extra parochial area see England Jurisdictions 1851 for surrounding parishes.

Poor Law Unions
Seisdon 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

Web sites
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