Forsbrook, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Forsbrook is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1849 from Dilhorne, Staffordshire Ancient Parish and Blurton, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

FORSBROOK, a township, in the parish of Dilhorne, union of Cheadle, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 2¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Cheadle.

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.

Please see Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Forsbrook St Peter was formed in 1849 from parts of Dilhorne, Staffordshire and Blurton, Staffordshire

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1849-1970 Mar 1849-1973 Bur 1850-2005 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1849-1866 Mar None Bur 1850-1866

Poor Law Unions
Cheadle 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
 * Vision of Britain