Yarlet, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
YARLETT, a liberty, in the parish of St. Mary, Stafford, locally in that of Weston-upon-Trent, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union, and N. division of the county, of Stafford, 4 miles (N.) from Stafford, on the road to Stone.

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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
Yarlet is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Marston with Whitgreave.
 * Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
 * The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

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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