Talke, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Talke is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1741 from Audley, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. TALK-O'-TH'-HILL, a chapelry, in the parish of Audley, union of Newcastle-under-Lyme, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Newcastle.

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1830- 1969 Mar 1859-1964 Bur 1860-1953 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts None held

Talke St Saviour Mission church to this parish closed 1969

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1949-1969 Mar 1948-1966 Bur no burial ground

Non-Conformist Churches
King St. Methodist Chapel (Talke Pits) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

New Rd Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Talke) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

For records transcribed by FreeREG please search under AUDLEY

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