Stafford St Chad, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Stafford St Chad is an Ancient parish and the oldest building in Stafford. it is now a district church of Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire

The living of St. Chad's is a perpetual curacy; net income, £85; patron, the Prebendary of Prees in the Cathedral of Lichfield. The church is a small edifice, originally in the Norman style, with a later English tower between the chancel and nave: the chancel is still in good preservation, and, with the exception of a modern east window, retains its original character; the nave is of more recent date.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 164-170. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51293 Date accessed: 07 April 2011.

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
Stafford St Chad Ancient Parish and district church to the Collegiate church of Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1636-1938 Mar 1636-1956 Bur 1636-1859 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1636-1865 Mar 1636-1848 Bur 1636-1839

Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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