Sneyd, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

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

Parish History
Sneyd is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Burslem, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

SNEYD, a township, in the parish of Burslem, borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, union of Wolstantonand Burslem, N. division of the hundred of Pirehilland of the county of Stafford. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Another dissenting congregation also has a meeting-house.

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
Sneyd Holy Trinity was formed in 1844 from part of Burslem, Staffordshire St John

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1845-1996 Mar 1853-2000 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1851-1864 Mar none Bur none

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
Wolstanton and Burslem 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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