Swynnerton, Staffordshire Genealogy

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



Parish History
Swynnerton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Acton, Beech, Hatton, Yarnfield, Millstone Green, Shelton, Stableford, and Millstone.

SWINNERTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stone, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 3½ miles (W. N. W.) from Stone. A Roman Catholic chapel is attached to Swinnerton Hall.

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
Swynnerton St Mary Ancient Parish

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap/mar/Bur 1558-1986 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1675-1868 Mar 1675-1849 Bur 1675-1869

Yarnfield St Barnabas was the mission church for this parish but no deposited records are held.

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
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.

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