Seighford, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Seighford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Little Bridgeford, Great Bridgeford, Aston, and Doxey.

SEIGHFORD (St. Chad), a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union, and N. division of the county, of Stafford, 2¾ miles (W. N. W.) from Stafford; containing 903 inhabitants. The parish includes the hamlets of Aston, Great and Little Bridgeford, Coton-Clanford, Doxey, and Derrington; and comprises 4600 acres, forming a highly cultivated district, of which two-thirds are arable, and the remainder pasture: the surface is undulated, and the scenery picturesque. The Liverpool and Birmingham railway runs through the parish for a distance of three and a half miles. Seighford Hall, an ancient half-timbered house with modern wings, stands in a small park at the west side of the village. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6, and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £119; impropriator, Francis Eld, Esq. The church was partly rebuilt of brick, about a century ago; it contains many neat mural monuments. There is a Church Sunday school. CotonClanford is remarkable as the birthplace of William Wollaston, author of The Religion of Nature Delineated; he died in 1724

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 44-48. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51263 Date accessed: 07 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Seighford St Chad Ancient Parish

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1560-1985 Mar 1560-1966 Bur 1560-1925 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1661-1850 Mar 1661-1842 Bur 1661-1850

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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.

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