Marston with Whitgreave, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Marston St Leonard was formed as a chapelry in 1777 and was a chapelry of Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire Other places in the parish include: Whitgreave. Whitgreave, Staffordshire was formed out of this parish in 1844.

MARSTON, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Mary, union of Stafford, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 2¾ miles (N.) from Stafford; containing 178 inhabitants. It comprises about 1500 acres of land, the soil of which is a rich loam; a considerable extent of waste was inclosed in 1800, when 125 acres were given to the parishioners in lieu of their right of common. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £140; patron, the Rector of St. Mary's. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £242, payable to the trustees of the Stafford charities, and the small tithes for £100. The chapel is a neat edifice of stone, with a campanile turret.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 263-266. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51136 Date accessed: 09 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Marston St Leonard

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1565-1964 Mar 1565-1983 Bur 1565-1978 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1661-1862 Mar 1661- Bur 1661-1863 missing Bap/Bur 1854-1856

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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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