Audley, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
AUDLEY (St. James), a parish, in the union of Newcastle-under-Lyme, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill, and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles(N. W.) from Newcastle, on the road to Nantwich. At Talk-o'-th'-Hill is another church; and there are numerous places of worship for dissenters in the parish.

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 also Staffordshire BMD

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Staffordshive Record Office.

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Baptisms 1538-1937; Marriages 1538-1921; Burials 1538-1914. *Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Baptisms 1674-1857; Marriages 1674-1857; Burials 1674-1857.

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

Non-Conformist Churches
Church St. Primitive Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Wood Lane Primitive Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Cemetery Records
The following MIs were kindly contributed by Alf Beard:


 * Some Monumental Inscriptions - Alsagers Bank, St. John's Churchyard
 * Some Monumental Inscriptions - St. James the Great's Churchyard

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Newcastle under Lyme 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
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