Madeley, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

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

Parish History
MADELEY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Newcastle-under-Lyme, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Newcastle.

Madeley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Little Madeley, Onneley, Onnely, and Madeley with Little Madeley.

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 also Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Madeley All Saints parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1678-1978 Mar 1678-1969 Bur 1678-1964 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1628-1868 Mar 1682-1837 Bur 1682-1838

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/Madeley/index.html