Tillington, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
Tillington is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

TILLINGTON, a township, in the united parishes of St. Mary and St. Chad, Stafford, union of Stafford, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, l½ mile (N. N. W.) from Stafford; containing 55 inhabitants. It comprises 956 acres, consisting of three farms. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £112. 15.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 357-360. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51344 Date accessed: 06 April 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
England Jurisdictions 1851 may assist. Tillington is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information. Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire Stafford St Chad, Staffordshire

Census records
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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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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