Burntwood, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Burntwood, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BURNTWOOD, a chapelry district, in the parish of St. Michael, Lichfield, union of Lichfield, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 2 miles (W. by S.) from Lichfield.

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 marriages and deaths. 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
Burntwood Christ Church formed 1821 from part of Lichfield St Michael, Staffordshire EP

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1820-1941 1965-1976 Mar 1845-1979 Bur 1820-1969 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1829-1872 Mar none Bur 1829-1852

St Anne (Chasetown) formed in 1865/66 registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

St John (Chase Terrace) was formed in 1884 as the mission church of St John within the Parish of Chasetown, Saint Anne, registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Non-Conformist Churches
Boney Hay Wesleyan Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Carmel New Connexion Church (Chase Terrace) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Mount Calvary Primitive Methodist Church (Chase Terrace) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Trinity Wesleyan (Chase Town) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Zion's Hill Primitive Methodist Chapel (Chasetown) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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/Burntwood/index.html