Wiggington, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Wiggington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1778 from chapelry in Tamworth, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Camberford.

WIGGINTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Tamworth, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 1¾ mile (N.) from Tamworth; containing, with the hamlets of Comberford, Coton, and Hopwas, 849 inhabitants. It is of level or gently-undulated surface, and the soil is a rich fine marl. In Coton is a paper manufactory. The Derby and Birmingham railway passes through the chapelry. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £92; patron, the Vicar of Tamworth. The chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, a neat structure of brick, was enlarged in 1830 by the erection of a north aisle. At Coton is a small chapel for the convenience of its inhabitants and those of Hopwas, built about ten years since. Thomas Barnes, in 1717, gave property now worth about £5 per annum in support of a school at Hopwas. Mr. Taylor and Mrs. Beardsley bequeathed each £200, half the interest to be appropriated to the augmentation of the curate's stipend, and the other half to the poor.

From: 'Wiggenhall - Wigton', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 571-575. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51406 Date accessed: 31 March 2011.

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.

Staffordshire BMD have indexes for births. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district may have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district or Cannock Registration Offices and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of Staffordshire BMD for further information.

Church records
Wiggington St Leonard a former chapelry in Tamworth, Staffordshire was formed in 1778

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1837-1962 Mar 1851-1965 Bur 1837-1944 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts none held

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Tamworth 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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Web sites
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