Chebsey, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CHEBSEY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Stone, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N.division of the county of Stafford, 2 miles (E. by S.)from Eccleshall; containing, with the township of Cold Norton.

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1660-1869 Mar 1660-1837, 1850-1975 Bur 1650-1750,1813-1890 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1660-1845 Mar 1660-1837 Bur 1662-1887 Missing Bap/Bur 1854-1859

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

Census Records

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

Poor Law Unions
Stone 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/Chebsey/index.html