Alton, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ALVETON, or Alton (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Cheadle, S. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles (E. by S.) from Cheadle; comprising the townships of Alton, Cotton, Denston, and Farley. There is a chapel at Cotton. The Calvinistic, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodists have places of worship; and a Roman Catholic chapel has been erected. Cotton St John the Baptist was formed from this parish.

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
Alton St Peter Ancient Parish

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


 * Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1681-1900 Mar 1681-1965 Bur 1681-1952
 * Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1676-1852 Mar 1676-1852 Bur 1676-1852

Cotton St John the Baptist was formed in 1796 formerly a township in this parish Bap and Burials were recorded in this parish until 1918; the Cotton church was licensed for marriages from 1944

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1795-1809 Mar none Bur none refer to the Alton Bishop's transcripts above for Cotton events.

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by StaffordshireFreeREG and can be searched for free.

Non-Conformist Churches
Alton Independent Chapel parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Cemetery Records
The following MIs from were kindly contributed by Alf Beard:


 * Some Monumental Inscriptions for St. Peter's Churchyard, St. John the Baptist RC Church &amp; New Cemetery

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Cheadle 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
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