Tunstall Christ Church, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
TUNSTALL, a considerable modern town, and a district parish consisting of the townships of Oldcott, Tunstall, and Ranscliff, in the parish of Wolstanton, union of Wolstanton and Burslem, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (N. by E.) from Newcastle. There are places of worship for Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, and Methodists of the New Connexion; also a Barker meeting-house.

Tunstall Christ Church was created in 1837 from Wolstanton, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

Subsequent mission churches of Tunstall St Aidan and Tunstall St Chad were formed from the parish (see below)

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
Tunstall Christ Church was formed in 1837 from part of Wolstanton, Staffordshire

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1832-1959 Mar 1838-1978 Bur 1832-1929 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1832-1868 Mar none Bur 1832-1868 Bap/Bur missing 1838, 1840-1842, 1846-1852, 1854

Tunstall St Aidan former Mission Church to Tunstall Christ Church now closed

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1914-1965 Mar none Bur none It is advisable to search the Tunstall Christ Church baptismal register for earlier years Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts No holdings

Tunstall St Chad former Mission Church to Tunstall Christ Church now closed

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1905-1975 Mar 1927-1976 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts No holdings

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

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Wolstanton and Burslem 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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