Upper Tean, Staffordshire Genealogy

Staffordshire Staffordshire Parishes

Parish History
Upper Tean is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Checkley, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Lower Tean.

TEAN, UPPER, an ecclesiastical district, in the parish of Checkley, union of Cheadle, S. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford, 2½ miles (S.) from Cheadle. The Independents and Wesleyans have places of worship.

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
Upper Tean Christ Church

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1843-1917 Mar 1845-1981 Bur 1844-1943 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts None held

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
Cheadle 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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