Yarlet, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
Yarlet is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information. YARLETT, a liberty, in the parish of St. Mary, Stafford, locally in that of Weston-upon-Trent, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union, and N. division of the county, of Stafford, 4 miles (N.) from Stafford, on the road to Stone; containing 24 inhabitants. The liberty comprises about 400 acres of land, the property of the Tunnicliff family, who reside at the Hall, a neat mansion situated on a gentle declivity.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 707-716. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51436 Date accessed: 06 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.

See Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Yarlet is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information. England Jurisdictions 1851 may be helpful.

Poor Law Unions
Stafford Poor Law Union

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

Web sites
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