Salt, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Salt St James the Great is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1843 from Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Enson

SALT, with Enson, a township, in the parish of St. Mary and St. Chad, Stafford, union of Stafford, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Stafford; containing 580 inhabitants. The tithes have been commuted for £247, payable to the trustees of the Stafford charities. A church dedicated to St. James has been erected and endowed by Earl Talbot, in whom the patronage is vested. There is also a place of worship for Wesleyans.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 5-11. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51253 Date accessed: 07 April 2011.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Salt like this:

SALT, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in St. Mary and St. Chad parish, Staffordshire. The village stands on the river Trent and the Grand Trunk canal, near Sandon r. station, and 3½ miles N N E of Stafford. The township includes also the hamlet of Enson. Real property, £2, 795. Pop., 509. Houses, 108. The chapelrywas constituted in 1844. Post-town, Sandon, under Stone. Pop., 808. Houses, 165. The living is a p.curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £110.* Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church was built in 1842; and a national school was built in 1857.

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
Salt St James the Great was formed in 1843 formerly a chapel of Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1843-1878 Mar none Bur none Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1843-1858 Mar Bur 1844-1858 Marriages from 1852 and burials from 1844 are with the incumbent at the church

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Poor Law Unions
Stafford Poor Law Union

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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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