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| In the heart of England, Staffordshire is the home of the world-renowned English pottery industry.
  
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The countryside is varied with the windswept Staffordshire moorlands in the north and the beautiful parkland of Cannock Chase in the south.
  
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Tamworth in the south boasts the Snowdome, Europe's first real snow indoor ski-slope, and the internationally famous theme park Alton Towers is hidden in the midst of beautiful peaceful countryside near the quiet market town of Leek in the north.
  
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'''County town:''' Stafford
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[[Image:EnglandStaffordshire.jpg|left|141px|thumb|Staffordshire County Map (source: Wikipedia)]]
 
  
'''Staffordshire'''
 
  
County town: Stafford
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'''Other major towns:''' Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall
  
Other major towns: Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall
 
  
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'''[[Places_of_Worship:Staffordshire| Staffordshire Places of Worship]]'''
  
In the heart of England, Staffordshire is the home of the world-renowned English pottery industry. The countryside is varied with the windswept Staffordshire moorlands in the north and the beautiful parkland of Cannock Chase in the south.
 
  
Tamworth in the south boasts the Snowdome, Europe's first real snow indoor ski-slope, and the internationally famous theme park Alton Towers is hidden in the midst of beautiful peaceful countryside near the quiet market town of Leek in the north.
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'''[https://www.familytreeforum.com/forum/site-projects/regional-projects Regional Projects Forum]'''
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| [[Image: EnglandStaffordshire.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Source: Wikipedia]]
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==Resources==
  
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'''Primary Reference'''
  
==Register Office Contact Details==
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*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives '''Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service''']
  
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*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/ Staffordshire Libraries]
  
Staffordshire is part of the UKBMD project. UKBMD sites offer a searchable BMD index. Online certificate ordering service and listings to each local register office:
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*[http://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/index.html The Midlands' Digital Library]
  
*[http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]  
  
*[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/ West Midlands BMD]
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*[http://www.sprs.org.uk/ Staffordshire Parish Registers Society]
  
  
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'''Countywide Interest'''
  
==Record Office Lookup Requests==
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*[http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/blackcountry/ The Black Country]
  
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*[http://www.blackcountryhistory.org.uk/default.aspx Black Country History]
  
Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
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*[http://dcdudley.tripod.com/ The North and South Staffordshire Ancestors Project]  
  
By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
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*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
  
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*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/churches/default.htm Staffs Churches]
  
'''Record Office Lookup Contacts'''
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*[http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/ The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia]
  
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*[http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/staffs.htm Genealogy and Staffordshire]
  
*Stafford R/O. ''Monthly'' [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=637 Margo]
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*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/staffs.html  The Local History Directory — Staffordshire]
  
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*[http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/STS/MIs.html Wishful Thinking's GENUKI - Staffordshire Memorial Inscription Collection]
  
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*[http://www.staffshistory.org.uk/ Staffordshire History]
  
==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
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*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track - Local History Online]
  
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*[http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/SOC/88627.htm Irish families who settled in Victorian Staffordshire]
  
Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
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*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/staffordshire/index.html Staffordshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets]  
  
By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
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*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/theme/default.asp?theme=18&text=0 Staffordshire Prisons]
  
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*[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records]
  
'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
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*[http://www.geocities.com/fountalnpen/moreton.html Villages and Townships on the Shropshire/Staffordshire Borders]
  
*Gayton, St Peter's  [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
 
*Gomal [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=634 Pamdidle]
 
*Kingswinford [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=634 Pamdidle]
 
*Stoke-on-Trent area  [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=585 Sam from Stoke]
 
  
==Photo Offers==
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'''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
  
Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please private message the member with your queries.
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*[http://www.btinternet.com/~aldridgelhs/ Aldridge LHS]
  
*Burton on Trent [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=559 Margaret in Burton]
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*[http://www.amblecote.org/ Amblecote History Society]
*Stone [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
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*Stafford [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
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*[http://www.bagnallvillage.com/ Bagnall Village]
*Rugley [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
 
  
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*[http://www.betley.net/ Betley]
  
==Links==
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*[http://www.lnw1.demon.co.uk/bdghs/bdghs.htm Biddulph & District Genealogy & Historical Society]
  
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*[http://www.bilbrook.50megs.com/ The Village of Bilbrook]
  
*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives '''County Record Office''']  
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*[http://www.blythebridge.org.uk/ Blythe Bridge]
  
*[http://www.familia.org.uk/services/england/staffordshire.html Library Link]  
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*[http://www.brownedge.com/index.php Brown Edge Village]
  
*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]  
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*[http://www.walsall.gov.uk/index/brownhills_in_history.htm Brownhills History]
  
 
*[http://www.geocities.com/bfhg1986 Burntwood Family History]  
 
*[http://www.geocities.com/bfhg1986 Burntwood Family History]  
  
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyStafford_(A-M).htm#PageTitle IGI Staffordshire A-M inc]
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*[http://www.caverswall.org.uk/ The Parish of Caverswall]
  
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyStafford_(N-Z).htm#PageTitle IGI Staffordshire N-Z inc]
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*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3542/ Draycott-en-le-Moors]
  
*[http://www.sprs.org.uk/ Staffordshire Parish Registers Society]
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*[http://www.fazeley.info/burialsbyyear.html Burials at St. Paul's Church, Fazeley 1855 - 1900]  
  
*[http://www.btinternet.com/~aldridgelhs/ Aldridge LHS]
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*[http://www.fazeley.info/marriages.html Marriages at St. Paul's Church, Fazeley 1842 - 1900]  
  
*[http://www.lnw1.demon.co.uk/bdghs/bdghs.htm Biddulph & District Genealogy & Historical Society]
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*[http://www.forsbrook.org.uk/ Forsbrook Village]
  
*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]  
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*[http://www.rduckett.clara.net/little-aston/index.htm Little Aston]  
  
*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/home.htm Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society]
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*[http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/genealogyp1.htm Madeley Genealogy]
  
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/StapOPC.htm Stapenhill OPC]
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*[http://www.odd-rode.org.uk/ Odd Rode and Surrounding Townships Under the Original Astbury Parish Umbrella]
  
*[http://www.wolverhamptonarchives.dial.pipex.com/churchrecords.htm Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies]
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*[http://www.pelsall-history.co.uk/ Pelsall History]
  
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*[http://www.rowleyregis.com Rowley Regis]
  
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*[http://www.sedgleymanor.com/ The Ancient Manor of Sedgley]
  
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/StapOPC.htm Stapenhill OPC]
  
'''Countywide Interest'''
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
  
*[http://www.somersetlarders.com/pages/content.php The Larder Family]  
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent History]
  
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/churches/default.htm Staffs Churches]
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*[http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/parlist.htm Stoke-upon-Trent Parish Listing of 1701]
  
*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/theme/default.asp?theme=18&text=0 Staffordshire Prisons]
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Stoke-on-Trent Potters]
  
*[http://www.geocities.com/fountalnpen/moreton.html Villages and Townships on the Shropshire/Staffordshire Borders] -includes some Parish Records
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*[http://www.st-marys-swynnerton.org.uk/ St Mary's Church Swynnerton - includes Gravestone Records]
*[http://www.memorial-inscriptions.org.uk/index.htm Cheshire, Staffs & Shropshire memorial inscriptions]
 
*[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records]
 
*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
 
*[http://www.blackcountryhistory.org.uk/default.aspx Welcome to Black Country History]  
 
  
*[http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/soc/families/ Diaspora- Irish Families Who Lived in Victorian Stafford]
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*[http://www.walsall.gov.uk/localhistorycentre Walsall Family History Centre]  
  
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track - Local History Online]
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*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/home.htm Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society]
  
*[http://www.staffshistory.org.uk/ Staffordshire History]
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*[http://www.wolverhamptonarchives.dial.pipex.com/churchrecords.htm Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies]
  
*[http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/blackcountry/ The Black Country]
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*[http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/ Wolverhampton History, for parish register indexes click on Resources > Family History]
  
*[http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/ The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia]
 
  
*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Stoke on Trent Potters]
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'''Maps and Photographs'''
  
*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/staffordshire/index.html Staffordshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets] - under construction
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~laetoli/lowerdovevalleytitheviewer.html Lower Dove Tithe Maps and Apportionments]
*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/hospitals/england/staffs/staffordshire_hospitals.htm Staffordshire Hospitals]  
 
  
*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/sts/staffordshire_asylums.htm Staffordshire Asylums]
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*[http://www.search.exploringthepotteries.org.uk/engine/theme/ Old Photographs of Staffordshire]
 
 
*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/staffs/staffordshire_workhouses.htm Stafford Workhouses] 
 
*[http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/STS/MIs.html Wishful Thinking's GENUKI - Staffordshire Memorial Inscription Collection]
 
*[http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/staffs.htm Genealogy and Staffordshire]
 
  
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*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Exhibition/Shopping/photos.htm Some Early Photographers and Photographic Studios in Wolverhampton]
  
'''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
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==Register Office==
  
*[http://www.amblecote.org/ Amblecote History Society]
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Staffordshire is part of the UKBMD project. UKBMD sites offer a searchable BMD index. Online certificate ordering service and listings to each local register office:
  
*[http://www.bagnallvillage.com/ Bagnall Village]
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*[http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
  
*[http://www.bilbrook.50megs.com/ The Village of Bilbrook]
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/ West Midlands BMD]  
  
*[http://www.blythebridge.org.uk/ Blythe Bridge]
 
  
*[http://www.brownedge.com/index.php Brown Edge Village]
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==Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests==
  
*[http://www.bhills-history.fsnet.co.uk/ Websters Genealogy and Brownhills History Pages]
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Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
  
*[http://www.caverswall.org.uk/ The Parish of Caverswall]
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
  
*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3542/ Draycott-en-le-Moors]
 
  
*[http://www.forsbrook.org.uk/ Forsbrook Village]
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'''Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts'''
  
*[http://www.odd-rode.org.uk/ Odd Rode and surrounding townships Under the Original Astbury Parish Umbrella]
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*Stafford R/O. ''Monthly'' [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=637 Margo]
  
*[http://www.sedgleymanor.com/ The Ancient Manor of Sedgley]
 
  
*[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent]
 
  
*[http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/genealogyp1.htm Madeley Genealogy]
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==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
  
*[http://www.pelsall-history.co.uk/ Pelsall History]
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Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
  
*[http://www.rowleyregis.com Rowley Regis]
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
  
*[http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/ Wolverhampton History]
 
*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/whittington_1891.html 1891 Census Returns for Whittington near Lichfield, Staffordshire.]
 
  
*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/whittington_1861.html 1861 Census Returns for Whittington near Lichfield, Staffordshire.]
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'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
  
*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
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*Gayton, St Peter's  [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
  
'''Maps & Photographs'''
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==Photo Offers==
  
*[http://www.search.exploringthepotteries.org.uk/engine/theme/ Old Photographs of Staffordshire]
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Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.
  
*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Exhibition/Shopping/photos.htm Some early Photographers and Photographic Studios in Wolverhampton]  
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*Stone [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
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*Stafford [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
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*Rugley [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
  
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~laetoli/lowerdovevalleytitheviewer.html Lower Dove Tithe Maps and Apportionments]
 
  
*[http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/parlist.htm Stoke-upon-Trent Parish Listing of 1701]
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In the heart of England, Staffordshire is the home of the world-renowned English pottery industry.

The countryside is varied with the windswept Staffordshire moorlands in the north and the beautiful parkland of Cannock Chase in the south.

Tamworth in the south boasts the Snowdome, Europe's first real snow indoor ski-slope, and the internationally famous theme park Alton Towers is hidden in the midst of beautiful peaceful countryside near the quiet market town of Leek in the north.

County town: Stafford


Other major towns: Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall


Staffordshire Places of Worship


Regional Projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference


Countywide Interest


Specific Town and Village Interest


Maps and Photographs

Register Office

Staffordshire is part of the UKBMD project. UKBMD sites offer a searchable BMD index. Online certificate ordering service and listings to each local register office:


Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.


Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts

  • Stafford R/O. Monthly Margo


Cemetery Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.


Cemetery Lookup Contacts

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.


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