Tixall, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Tixall, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
TIXALL (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union, and N. division of the county, of Stafford, 5 miles (W. by N.) from Rugeley.

A Topographical and Historical Description of the Parish of Tixall in the County of Stafford (1817) has been digitised by Internet Archive - free.

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
Tixall St John the Baptist parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1663-2002 Mar 1633-1836 Bur 1663-1812 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1663-1865 Mar 1663-1848 Bur 1663-1864 missing bap/bur 1853-1855

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/Tixall/index.html