Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Newcastle under Lyme is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1849 from chapelry in Stoke upon Trent Ancient Parish. Non-Church of England denominations identified in Newcastle under Lyme include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Particular Baptist, Plymouth Brethren, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Unitarian, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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
Newcastle under Lyme St Giles was formed in 1807 formerly a chapelry of Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire

Newcastle under Lyme St Giles parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1563- 1965 Mar 1563-1982 Bur 1563-1872 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1663-1864 Mar 1663-1842 Bur 1663-1804 missing Bap/Bur 1837/8 and 1861/3

Newcastle under Lyme Holy Trinity Roman Catholic parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Knutton chapelry 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.

Census Records

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

Poor Law Unions
Newcastle under Lyme 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/Newcastle/index.html