Weeford, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Weeford St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.Other places in the parish include: Packington, Swinfen, and Swinfen and Packington.

WEEFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Lichfield, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Lichfield; containing, with the hamlets of Packington and Swinfen, 426 inhabitants, of whom 276 are in the township of Weeford. This place is supposed to have taken its name from a ford on the line of the Roman Watlingstreet, called Way-ford. Within the parish is the lowe termed Offlow, which gives name to the hundred. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £80; patron, the Bishop of Lichfield.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 494-498. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51384 Date accessed: 14 April 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 marriages and deaths. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district (formerly held at Lichfield) and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of &amp;nbsp;Staffordshire BMD for further information.

Church records
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap1562-1992 Mar 1562-1975 Bur 1562-200 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1638-1835 Mar 1638-1835 Bur 1638-1835 Missing Bap/Mar/Bur 1825

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Lichfield 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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Web sites
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