Whitmore, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Whitmore, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WHITMORE, a parish, in the union of Newcastle-under-Lyme, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill,and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Newcastle.

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
Whitmore St Mary &amp; All Saints former chapelry in Stoke on Trent St Peter

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1558-2001 Mar 1558-1995 Bur 1558-1992 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1674-1837 Mar 1674-1837 Bur 1674-1838 missing Bap/Mar/Bur 1836-1837

Census records

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

Poor Law Unions
Newcastle under Lyme 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/Whitmore/index.html