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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]
  
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*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/staffordshire/index.html Staffordshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets]
  
Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
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*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/theme/default.asp?theme=18&text=0 Staffordshire Prisons]
  
By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
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*[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records]
  
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*[http://www.geocities.com/fountalnpen/moreton.html Villages and Townships on the Shropshire/Staffordshire Borders]
  
'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
 
  
*Gayton, St Peter's  [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
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'''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
*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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*[http://www.btinternet.com/~aldridgelhs/ Aldridge LHS]
  
Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please private message the member with your queries.
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*[http://www.amblecote.org/ Amblecote History Society]
  
*Burton on Trent [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=559 Margaret in Burton]
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*[http://www.bagnallvillage.com/ Bagnall Village]
*Stone [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
 
*Stafford [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
 
*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.memorial-inscriptions.org.uk/index.htm Cheshire, Staffs & Shropshire memorial inscriptions]
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent History]
  
*[http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/soc/families/ Diaspora Connections - Irish Families Who Lived in Victorian Stafford]
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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://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/staffs.htm Genealogy and Staffordshire]
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Stoke-on-Trent Potters]
  
*[http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/STS/MIs.html Wishful Thinking's GENUKI - Staffordshire Memorial Inscription Collection]
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*[http://www.st-marys-swynnerton.org.uk/ St Mary's Church Swynnerton - includes Gravestone Records]
  
*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/sts/staffordshire_asylums.htm Staffordshire Asylums]  
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*[http://www.walsall.gov.uk/localhistorycentre Walsall Family History Centre]  
  
*[http://www.staffshistory.org.uk/ Staffordshire History]
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*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/home.htm Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society]
  
*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/hospitals/england/staffs/staffordshire_hospitals.htm Staffordshire Hospitals]  
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*[http://www.wolverhamptonarchives.dial.pipex.com/churchrecords.htm Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies]
  
*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
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*[http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/ Wolverhampton History, for parish register indexes click on Resources > Family History]
  
*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/staffordshire/index.html Staffordshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets]
 
  
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track - Local History Online]
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'''Maps and Photographs'''
  
*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/theme/default.asp?theme=18&text=0 Staffordshire Prisons]
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~laetoli/lowerdovevalleytitheviewer.html Lower Dove Tithe Maps and Apportionments]
  
*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/staffs/staffordshire_workhouses.htm Staffordshire Workhouses] 
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*[http://www.search.exploringthepotteries.org.uk/engine/theme/ Old Photographs of Staffordshire]
 
 
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/churches/default.htm Staffs Churches]
 
  
*[http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/blackcountry/ The Black Country
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*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Exhibition/Shopping/photos.htm Some Early Photographers and Photographic Studios in Wolverhampton]
  
*[http://www.somersetlarders.com/pages/content.php The Larder Family]
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==Register Office==
  
*[http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/ The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia]
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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://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records]
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*[http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
  
*[http://www.geocities.com/fountalnpen/moreton.html Villages and Townships on the Shropshire/Staffordshire Borders]  
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/ West Midlands BMD]  
  
*[http://www.blackcountryhistory.org.uk/default.aspx Welcome to Black Country History]
 
  
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==Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests==
  
'''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
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Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
  
*[http://www.amblecote.org/ Amblecote History Society]
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
  
*[http://www.bagnallvillage.com/ Bagnall Village]
 
  
*[http://www.bilbrook.50megs.com/ The Village of Bilbrook]
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'''Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts'''
  
*[http://www.blythebridge.org.uk/ Blythe Bridge]
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*Stafford R/O. ''Monthly'' [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=637 Margo]
  
*[http://www.brownedge.com/index.php Brown Edge Village]
 
  
*[http://www.bhills-history.fsnet.co.uk/ Websters Genealogy and Brownhills History Pages]
 
  
*[http://www.caverswall.org.uk/ The Parish of Caverswall]
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==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
  
*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3542/ Draycott-en-le-Moors]
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Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
  
*[http://www.forsbrook.org.uk/ Forsbrook Village]
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
  
*[http://www.odd-rode.org.uk/ Odd Rode and surrounding townships Under the Original Astbury Parish Umbrella]
 
  
*[http://www.sedgleymanor.com/ The Ancient Manor of Sedgley]
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'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
  
*[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent]
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*Gayton, St Peter's  [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
  
*[http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/genealogyp1.htm Madeley Genealogy]
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==Photo Offers==
  
*[http://www.pelsall-history.co.uk/ Pelsall History]
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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.rowleyregis.com Rowley Regis]
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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://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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*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
 
 
 
'''Maps & Photographs'''
 
 
 
*[http://www.search.exploringthepotteries.org.uk/engine/theme/ Old Photographs of Staffordshire]
 
 
 
*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Exhibition/Shopping/photos.htm Some early Photographers and Photographic Studios in Wolverhampton]
 
 
 
*[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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Latest revision as of 10:22, 16 May 2023

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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