Gnosall, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
GNOSALL (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Newport, W. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, S. division of the county of Stafford, 6½ miles (W. S. W.) from Stafford.

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

Baptisms (1785-1986), Marriages (1799-1993) and Burials (1775-1976)

St Lawrence Churchyard headstone inscriptions

Census records

 * 1532/3 - A List of Families in 1532/3
 * 1861 A list of families in Gnosall 1861
 * Census transcriptions 1841-1911

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
 * 1838 Tithe Maps & Awards (complete parish)
 * 1880 Parish OS Map (25" to mile)
 * 1910 Finance Act Parish Map & Property reference pages

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Gnosall/index.html

http://www.gnosallhistory.co.uk/index.htm