Stafford Christ Church, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Stafford Christ Church is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a non-Church of England denomination located somewhere in Stafford, but the exact parish has not been identified.

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
Stafford Christ Church was formed in 1844 from Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire The church was demolished in 1979. the parish is now at Rowley Street in a shared ecumenical Anglican/Methodist church building.

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1839-1976 Mar 1845-1979 Bur 1839-1892 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1839-1872 Mar 1849-1851 Bur 1839-1871 missing 1856, 1867 Bap/Bur

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Stafford Poor Law Union

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/Stafford/index.html