Lichfield St Michael, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Lichfield St Michael is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1729 from chapelry in Lichfield St Mary Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Edgehill, Edial, Fisherwick, Woodhouses, Pipehill, Streethay, and Pipe Hill.

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.

Staffordshire BMD have indexes for births. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district (formerly held at Lichfield) and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of Staffordshire BMD for further information.

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

Lichfield Record Office hold deposited parish registers Bap 1569-1933 Marr 1569-1945 Bur 1569-1940 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishops Transcripts Bap 1663-1868 Marr 1663-1837 Bur 1663-1868

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Lichfield 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/Lichfield/StMichael/index.html