Swynnerton, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Swynnerton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.Other places in the parish include: Acton, Beech, Hatton, Yarnfield, Millstone Green, Shelton, Stableford, and Millstone.

SWINNERTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stone, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 3½ miles (W. N. W.) from Stone; containing 961 inhabitants. The parish comprises 6400 acres, whereof 1300 are wood and uninclosed common; of the arable land, the larger part is adapted for barley and turnips, and the rest for wheat, beans, &amp;c. The surface is undulated, and the scenery and views are rich and varied. The river Sow runs along the boundary on the west, and the roads from Stone to Chester and from Newcastle to Eccleshall pass through the parish; the Trent and Mersey canal flows three miles eastward of the village, and the Liverpool and Birmingham railway is distant two miles. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £10. 2. 6.; patron and incumbent, the Rev. Christopher Dodsley: the glebe consists of 70 acres, with an excellent rectory-house. The church is an ancient fabric, built at different times: in the vestry, which is used as a parochial school, is a colossal figure of Our Saviour pointing to the wound in his side; this figure was discovered buried at a short distance from its present situation, and is supposed to have been secreted there during the Reformation. A Roman Catholic chapel is attached to Swinnerton Hall, the seat of Thomas Fitzherbert, Esq., the largest landowner in the parish.

From: 'Swinefleet - Swyre', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 289-292. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51324 Date accessed: 01 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Swynnerton St Mary Ancient Parish

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap/mar/Bur 1558-1986 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1675-1868 Mar 1675-1849 Bur 1675-1869

Yarnfield St Barnabas was the mission church for this parish but no deposited records are held.

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Census records
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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.

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