Cotes Heath, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Cotes Heath St James was formed as a district church from Eccleshall, Staffordshire in 1844.

COTES, a township, in the parish of Eccleshall, union of Stone, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles (N. by E.) from Eccleshall; containing 328 inhabitants. This place is situated on the road from Newcastle to Eccleshall, and on the railway from Liverpool to Birmingham. The living of the district church of St. James, CotesHeath, is a perpetual curacy; net income, £100; patron, the Vicar of Eccleshall: there is a parsonage-house. A national school has a small endowment.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 693-696. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50897 Date accessed: 25 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Cotes Heath St James was formed from Eccleshall, Staffordshire parish in 1844

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1845-1995 Mar 1846-1996 Bur 1844-1992 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1844-1868 Mar 1846-1856 Bur 1844-1868 Missing Bap/Mar/Bur 1869-1873

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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.

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