Leek, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LEEK (St. Edward the Confessor), a market town and parish, and the head of a union, partly in the S. division, but chiefly in the N. division, of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford; comprising the townships of Bradnop, Endon, Heaton,Leek, Leek-Frith, Longsdon, Onecote, Rudyard, Rushton-James, Rushton-Spencer, Stanley, and Tittisworth. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, Primitive Methodists,and Wesleyans and there is a Roman Catholic chapel.

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
Leek St Edward the Confessor parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.

Leek St Peter parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Non-Conformist Churches
Mount Pleasant Methodist Chapel  registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

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

Poor Law Unions
Leek 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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/LeekandLowe/index.html