Aston, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Aston-by-Stone St Saviour is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1846 from Stone, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Little Aston.

ASTON, with Burston and Stoke, a township, in the parish and union of Stone, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 2 miles (S. S. E.) from Stone; containing 773 inhabitants. This township is situated in the southeastern part of the parish. Aston lies on the southwest side of the Trent, opposite to Stoke, which is a long straggling village on the Lichfield road, near the Trent and Mersey canal; Burston is a small hamlet on the Trent, containing several good houses. Aston Hall is the property of Lord St. Vincent. In the summer of 1846, a church (St. Saviour's) was erected and endowed by Lord and Lady St. Vincent; the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of his Lordship. The tithes have been commuted for £396. One of the sons of Wulphere, King of Mercia, is said to have suffered martyrdom at Burston.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 100-104. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50767 Date accessed: 04 May 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
Aston St Matthias was formed in 1846 from part of Stone, Staffordshire Previously united with Burston


 * Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1846-1993 Mar 1847-1995 Bur registers still with incumbent at the church
 * Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1846-1865 Mar none Bur 1846-1865

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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