Stone Christ Church, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Stone Christ Church is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1840 from Stone Ancient Parish.

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
Stone Christ Church was formed from part of Stone St Michael Ancient Parish in 1840

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1840-1970 Mar 1845-2003 Bur 1840-1959 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1840-1879 Mar none Bur 1840-1872 missing 1849-1851,1874-1875

Poor Law Unions
Stone 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/Stone/index.html