Stone, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STONE (St. Michael), a market-town and parish,and the head of a union, in the N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 7 miles (N. by W.) from Stafford, and 141 (N. W. by N.)from London. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans of the Old and New Connexions.

Other places in the parish include: Normacott, Normacot, Stallington, Stoke, Tittensor, Walton, Beech, Blurton, Burston, Darlaston, Little Acton, Kibbleston, Kibblestone with Oulton, Meaford, Moddershall, and Oulton.

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
Stone St Michael parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:


 * Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1564-1924 Mar 1568-1912 Bur 1568-1960
 * Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1668-1893 Mar 1668-1862 Bur 1668-1892 Missing marriages 1854-1855,1857,1859.

Stone Christ Church parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Oulton chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Cemetery Records
The following MIs were kindly contributed by Vicki Backhouse:

Some Monumental Inscriptions from St. Saviour's Churchyard located in the Aston by Stone township

Census records

 * 1532/3 - A List of Families in 1532/3

Poor Law Unions
Stone 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Stone/index.html