Church Leigh, Staffordshire Genealogy

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Parish History
LEIGH (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Uttoxeter, S. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford, 7 miles (S. by E.) from Cheadle.

Other places in the parish include: Church Leigh, Dodsley, Field, Field Withington, Leigh with Dodsley, Painley Hill, Middleton Green, Upper and Lower Nobut, Withington Upper and Lower Leigh and Church Leigh, Withington, Lower Nobut, Middleton Green, Painley Hill, Upper Leigh, Upper Nobut, and Lower Leigh.

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
Leigh All Saints

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1541-1983 Mar 1541-1988 Bur 1541-1909 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1660-1854 Mar 1650- 1841 Bur 1660-1854

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
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.

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