Stretton, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Stretton St John is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1722 from chapelry in Penkridge Ancient Parish.

STRETTON, a parochial chapelry, in the union of Brewood, W. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, S. division of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (S. W.) from Penkridge; containing 272 inhabitants. This place is thought to occupy the site of the Pennicrocium of the Romans, with the situation of which, as laid down by Antoninus in his Itinerary, it perfectly agrees: the supposition is further strengthened by the discovery of several coins, and other relics of antiquity. The chapelry comprises 1500 acres by admeasurement, in nearly equal portions of arable and pasture, chiefly the property of George Monckton, Esq.. of Stretton Hall. The road from Shrewsbury to Coventry passes along its south side; and the river Penk, the Liverpool and Birmingham railway, and the Stafford and Worcester canal, at a short distance on the east. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £96; patron and impropriator, Lord Hatherton. The chapel is dedicated to St. John, and is a small edifice mostly built of brick.From: 'Streatham - Stretton-upon-Dunsmore', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 246-250. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51314 Date accessed: 10 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.

Church records
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
Penkridge 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 Due to a map layer error Stretton has an incorrect entry relating to the township of Stretton in Burton upon Trent. This is awaiting correction (March 2011)
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.