Sandon, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SANDON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Stone, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles ( N. N. E.) from Stafford. There is a place of worship forMethodists. Other places in the parish include: Dayhills, Day-Hills, Smallrice, and Normicott.

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1636-2004 Mar 1636-1982 Bur 1636-2004 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1660-1868 Mar 1660-1850 Bur 1660-1868

Census Records

 * 1532/3 - A List of Families in 1532/3

Poor Law Unions
Stone 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

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