Statfold, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Statfold is an Ancient Parish in Staffordshire.

STATFOLD, a parish, in the union of Tamworth, N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 3¼ miles (N. E.) from Tamworth; containing 45 inhabitants. The parish comprises by measurement 450 acres of land, the property of Stanley Pipe Wolferstan, Esq., lord of the manor. Nearly two-thirds of the surface are arable, and the remainder pasture, with a moderate portion of ornamental plantation; the soil is generally a red clay. The church, now used only as a chapel for interment, for which purpose it is kept in repair by the proprietor, contains some ancient monuments. This place, under its old name, Stotfold, was one of the prebends in the cathedral of Lichfield; but the revenue, with that of three other prebends, has been formed by act of parliament into a Fabric Fund, for repairs, &amp;c. The late proprietor, Samuel Pipe Wolferstan, who died in June 1820, was distinguished by his antiquarian researches, and as a friend assisted Shaw in his history of the county.

From: 'Starbotton - Staythorpe', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 195-198. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51300 Date accessed: 31 March 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.

Staffordshire BMD have indexes for births. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district may have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district or Cannock Registration Offices and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of Staffordshire BMD for further information.

Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Tamworth 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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Web sites
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