Stonnall, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

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



Parish History
Stonnall St Peter is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1823 from Shenstone, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Lower Stonnal and Over Stonnal with Lynn.

STONALL,OVER, a chapelry district, in the parish of Shenstone, union of Lichfield, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 6 miles (S. W.) from Lichfield.

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1823-1993 Mar 1846-1993 Bur 1823-1929 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1823-1864 Mar none Bur 1823-1864

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
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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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