Oakamoor, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

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

Parish History
OAKMOOR, or Oakamoor an ecclesiastical district, in the parishes of Alveton, Cheadle, and Kingsley, union of Cheadle, S. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (E. by N.) from Cheadle.

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
Oakamoor Holy Trinity was formed in 1833 from part of Cheadle, Staffordshire

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1832-1970 Mar 1865-1982 Bur 1833-1892 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1835-1853 Mar None Bur 1835-1855

Poor Law Unions
Cheadle 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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