Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Mavesyn Ridware St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.Other places in the parish include: Blithbury, Ridware Hill, and Hill Ridware

RIDWARE, MAVESYN (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Lichfield, N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 4¾ miles (E. by S.) from Rugeley; containing, with the hamlet of Blithbury, 531 inhabitants. The parish is situated between the rivers Trent and Blythe, and comprises by admeasurement 2336 acres of rich land; it is mostly arable, with some fine meadow land on the margin of the Trent. The road from Lichfield to Uttoxeter runs through the parish, and the Grand Trunk canal crosses the road about 1½ mile from the hamlet of Hill-Ridware. Petty sessions are held at Hill-Ridware on every alternate Tuesday. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 2. 11., and in the gift of Hugo Mavesyn Chadwick, and John Newton Lane, Esqrs.: the former is the principal proprietor of the parish. The tithes have been commuted for £470, and the glebe comprises 13 acres.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 665-668. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51237 Date accessed: 14 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.

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
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1538-1931 Mar 1538-1990 Bur 1538-1910 (Bur missing for 1717-1771) Includes partial Bishop's Transcripts for some years Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1663-1868 Mar 1663-1843 Bur 1663-1868 missing Bap Mar and burials for years 1836,1853

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Parish registers for Mavesyn-Ridware, 1538-1901 Staffordshire Record Office no.: D 3712/1/1-6, D 3712/1, D4191/2-3.

Baptisms 1552-1769, 1813-1901 Marriages 1538-1650, 1663-1771 Burials 1538-1717 FHL BRITISH Film 1471184 Items 10-14 Marriages 1771-1900 Burials 1813-1900 FHL BRITISH Film 1526108 Items 1-4

Bishop's transcripts for Mavesyn-Ridware, 1663-1867 Microfilm of original records in the Staffordshire Record Office. Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1663-1812. FHL BRITISH Film 421573 Item 3 Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1813-1867. FHL BRITISH Film 435804

Known Issue entries for the parish in England Births and Christenings 1538-1975 duplicate erroneous entries for the event in indexing project (batch) number: C39155-1 system origin: England-VR source film number: 1526108 with incorrect place data entry for Baptismal records for Rushall, Staffordshire

Census records
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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.

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Web sites
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