Marchington, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
MARCHINGTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Hanbury, union of Uttoxeter, N. division of the hundredof Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles(S. E. by E.) from Uttoxeter.

Marchington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1739 from chapelry in Hanbury Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Marchington Woodlands.

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.

Church Records
Marchington St Peter was formed in 1739 a former chaplery of Hanbury, Staffordshire

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1612-1979 Mar 1612-1985 Bur 1612-1968 (partially Bishop's transcripts Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1667-1868 Mar 1667-1884 Bur 1667-1868 Missing Bap/Mar/Bur 1838-1840, Bap/Bur 1845-1858

Census Records

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

Poor Law Unions
Uttoxeter 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/Marchington/index.html