Calton, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Parish History
CALTON, a chapelry, partly in the parish of Blore, N. division, and partly in the parishes of Croxden, Mayfield, and Waterfall, S. division, of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford, 5¾ miles (W. N. W.) from Ashbourn, on the road to Leek.

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
Calton St Mary is a former chapelry in Blore Ray, Staffordshire Mayfield, Staffordshire Waterfall, Staffordshire Croxden, Staffordshire which was formed as parish in 1902

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1760-1792, 1813-1915 Mar 1903-1982 Bur 1907-1992 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1809-1844 Mar none Bur none

Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist 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
Ashbourne Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

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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