Salt, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes



Parish History SALT, a township, this chapelry and perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Lichfield.&#160;It&#160;was constituted in 1844,&#160;in the parish of St. Mary and St. Chad, Stafford, union of Stafford, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Stafford.The township includes also the hamlet of Enson. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 5-11. Date accessed: 06 November 2012. .

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
Salt St James the Great was formed in 1843 formerly a chapel of Stafford St Mary, Staffordshire

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1843-1878 Mar none Bur none Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1843-1858 Mar Bur 1844-1858 Marriages from 1852 and burials from 1844 are with the incumbent at the church

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
Stafford Poor Law Union

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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