Sandon, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire Staffordshire Parishes



Parish History
SANDON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Stone, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles ( N. N. E.) from Stafford. There is a place of worship for Methodists.

Other places in the parish include: Dayhills, Day-Hills, Smallrice, and Normicott.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sandon like this:

SANDON, a village and a parish in Stone district, Stafford. The village stands near the river Trent, the Grand Trunk canal, and the North Staffordshire railway, 4¾ miles S E of Stone; has a station on the railway.

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
Sandon All Saints Ancient Parish

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1636-2004 Mar 1636-1982 Bur 1636-2004 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1660-1868 Mar 1660-1850 Bur 1660-1868

Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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