Canwell, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CANWELL, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Tamworth, S. division of the hundred of Offlowand of the county of Stafford, 5¼ miles (S. W. by W.)from Tamworth.

Canwell St Mary, St Giles and All Saints was formed as a parish in 1927.

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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.

Staffordshire BMD have indexes for births. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district may have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district or Cannock Registration Offices and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of Staffordshire BMD for further information.

See West Midlands BMD and Staffordshire BMD

Church Records
Canwell was an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information. England Jurisdictions 1851 may be helpful.

Canwell St Mary, St Giles and All Saints was formed from the previously extra parochial area in 1927

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Mar 1927-1994 Other records remain with the incumbent in the parish. Lichfield Record Office no holdings of Bishop's Transcripts due to extra parochial status

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions
Tamworth 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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