Difference between revisions of "Staffordshire"

From the Family Tree Forum Reference Library
 
(102 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
<div align="right">
+
[[Category:Region 3 ~ West Midlands]]
[[Image:staffordshire.jpg|250px|thumb|Snow in Keele submitted by Just Gillian]]
+
{| width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"
</div>
+
|-valign="top"
__TOC__
+
| 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.
  
 +
| style="width:250px" align="right"| __TOC__
 +
|-valign="top"
 +
|
 +
'''County town:''' Stafford
  
  
 +
'''Other major towns:''' Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall
  
  
 +
'''[[Places_of_Worship:Staffordshire| Staffordshire Places of Worship]]'''
  
  
 +
'''[https://www.familytreeforum.com/forum/site-projects/regional-projects Regional Projects Forum]'''
 +
| [[Image: EnglandStaffordshire.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Source: Wikipedia]]
 +
|}
 +
==Resources==
  
 +
'''Primary Reference'''
  
 +
*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives '''Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service''']
  
 +
*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/ Staffordshire Libraries]
  
 +
*[http://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/index.html The Midlands' Digital Library]
  
 +
*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]
  
 +
*[http://www.sprs.org.uk/ Staffordshire Parish Registers Society]
  
  
 +
'''Countywide Interest'''
  
 +
*[http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/blackcountry/ The Black Country]
  
 +
*[http://www.blackcountryhistory.org.uk/default.aspx Black Country History]
  
 +
*[http://dcdudley.tripod.com/ The North and South Staffordshire Ancestors Project]
  
 +
*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
  
 +
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/churches/default.htm Staffs Churches]
  
 +
*[http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/ The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia]
  
 +
*[http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/staffs.htm Genealogy and Staffordshire]
  
 +
*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/staffs.html  The Local History Directory — Staffordshire]
  
==Register Office Contact Details==
+
*[http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/STS/MIs.html Wishful Thinking's GENUKI - Staffordshire Memorial Inscription Collection]
  
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.staffshistory.org.uk/ Staffordshire History]
  
*[http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
+
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track - Local History Online]
  
*[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/West Midlands BMD]  
+
*[http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/SOC/88627.htm Irish families who settled in Victorian Staffordshire]
  
 +
*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/staffordshire/index.html Staffordshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets]
  
 +
*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/theme/default.asp?theme=18&text=0 Staffordshire Prisons]
  
 +
*[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records]
  
==Record Office Lookup Requests==
+
*[http://www.geocities.com/fountalnpen/moreton.html Villages and Townships on the Shropshire/Staffordshire Borders]
  
Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
 
  
By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
+
'''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
  
 +
*[http://www.btinternet.com/~aldridgelhs/ Aldridge LHS]
  
'''Record Office Lookup Contacts'''
+
*[http://www.amblecote.org/ Amblecote History Society]
  
*Stafford R/O. ''Monthly'' [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=637 Margo]
+
*[http://www.bagnallvillage.com/ Bagnall Village]
  
 +
*[http://www.betley.net/ Betley]
  
==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
+
*[http://www.lnw1.demon.co.uk/bdghs/bdghs.htm Biddulph & District Genealogy & Historical Society]
 
 
Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
 
 
 
By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
 
 
 
'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
 
 
 
*Gayton, St Peter's :[http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 bren.mac]
 
*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]
 
  
==Links==
+
*[http://www.bilbrook.50megs.com/ The Village of Bilbrook]
  
*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives County Record Office]  
+
*[http://www.blythebridge.org.uk/ Blythe Bridge]
  
*[http://www.familia.org.uk/services/england/staffordshire.html Library Link]  
+
*[http://www.brownedge.com/index.php Brown Edge Village]
  
*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]  
+
*[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://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/staffs.html Local History Societies]  
+
*[http://www.caverswall.org.uk/ The Parish of Caverswall]
  
*[http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/STS/MIs.html Wishful Thinking's GENUKI: Staffordshire Pages]
+
*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3542/ Draycott-en-le-Moors]
  
 +
*[http://www.fazeley.info/burialsbyyear.html Burials at St. Paul's Church, Fazeley 1855 - 1900]
  
'''Local History Society'''
+
*[http://www.fazeley.info/marriages.html Marriages at St. Paul's Church, Fazeley 1842 - 1900]
  
 +
*[http://www.forsbrook.org.uk/ Forsbrook Village]
  
*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
+
*[http://www.rduckett.clara.net/little-aston/index.htm Little Aston]  
  
*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
+
*[http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/genealogyp1.htm Madeley Genealogy]
  
*[http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/staffs.htm Genealogy and Staffordshire]
+
*[http://www.odd-rode.org.uk/ Odd Rode and Surrounding Townships Under the Original Astbury Parish Umbrella]
  
*[http://www.btinternet.com/~aldridgelhs/ Aldridge LHS]
+
*[http://www.pelsall-history.co.uk/ Pelsall History]
  
*[http://www.sprs.org.uk/ Staffordshire Parish Registers Society]
+
*[http://www.rowleyregis.com Rowley Regis]
  
*[http://www.lnw1.demon.co.uk/bdghs/bdghs.htm Biddulph & District Genealogy & Historical Society]
+
*[http://www.sedgleymanor.com/ The Ancient Manor of Sedgley]
  
*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]  
+
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/StapOPC.htm Stapenhill OPC]
  
*[http://www.geocities.com/bfhg1986 Burntwood Family History]  
+
*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
  
*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/staffs.html Local History Societies]
+
*[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent History]
 
 
 
 
'''OPC'''
 
  
 +
*[http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/parlist.htm Stoke-upon-Trent Parish Listing of 1701]
  
'''Archives'''
+
*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Stoke-on-Trent Potters]
  
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyStafford_(A-M).htm#PageTitle IGI Staffordshire Surnames A-M]
+
*[http://www.st-marys-swynnerton.org.uk/ St Mary's Church Swynnerton - includes Gravestone Records]
  
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyStafford_(N-Z).htm#PageTitle IGI Staffordshire surnames N-Z]
+
*[http://www.walsall.gov.uk/localhistorycentre Walsall Family History Centre]  
  
*[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records]
+
*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/home.htm Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society]
 
 
*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
 
 
 
*[http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/parlist.htm Stoke-upon-Trent Parish Listing of 1701]
 
  
 
*[http://www.wolverhamptonarchives.dial.pipex.com/churchrecords.htm Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies]
 
*[http://www.wolverhamptonarchives.dial.pipex.com/churchrecords.htm Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies]
  
*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/whittington_1891.html 1891 Census Returns for Whittington near Lichfield, Staffordshire.]
+
*[http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/ Wolverhampton History, for parish register indexes click on Resources > Family History]
  
*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/whittington_1861.html 1861 Census Returns for Whittington near Lichfield, Staffordshire.]
 
  
 +
'''Maps and Photographs'''
  
'''Family and social history'''
+
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~laetoli/lowerdovevalleytitheviewer.html Lower Dove Tithe Maps and Apportionments]
  
 +
*[http://www.search.exploringthepotteries.org.uk/engine/theme/ Old Photographs of Staffordshire]
  
*[http://www.somersetlarders.com/pages/content.php The Larder Family] Mostly for Somerset but contains links for Staffordshire and the Black Country.
+
*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Exhibition/Shopping/photos.htm Some Early Photographers and Photographic Studios in Wolverhampton]
  
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/churches/default.htm Staffs Churches]
+
==Register Office==
  
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/churches/default.htm Staffordshire Prisons]
+
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.institutions.org.uk/hospitals/england/staffs/staffordshire_hospitals.htm Staffordshire Hospitals]
+
*[http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
  
*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/sts/staffordshire_asylums.htm Staffordshire Asylums]
+
*[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/ West Midlands BMD]  
  
*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/staffs/staffordshire_workhouses.htm Stafford Workhouses]
 
  
 +
==Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests==
  
'''Maps & Photographs'''
+
Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
  
 +
By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
  
*[http://www.old-maps.co.uk/gazetteer/10staff321/10staff321gazA.htm Town and Village Maps]
 
  
 +
'''Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts'''
  
'''Countywide interest'''  
+
*Stafford R/O. ''Monthly'' [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=637 Margo]
  
  
*[http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/soc/families/ Diaspora- Irish families who lived in Victorian Stafford]
 
  
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track - Local History Online]
+
==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
  
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past track]
+
Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
  
*[http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/blackcountry/ The Black Country]
+
By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
  
  
'''Specific Town Village interest'''
+
'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
  
 +
*Gayton, St Peter's  [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
  
*[http://www.odd-rode.org.uk/ Odd Rode and surrounding townships] Under the original Astbury Parish umbrella, on the Cheshire/Staffordshire border.
+
==Photo Offers==
  
*[http://www.sedgleymanor.com/ The Ancient Manor of Sedgley]
+
Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.
  
*[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent]
+
*Stone [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
 
+
*Stafford [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
*[http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/genealogyp1.htm Madeley Genealogy]
+
*Rugley [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
 
 
*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
 
 
 
*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Stoke Potters]
 
 
 
*[http://www.rowleyregis.com Rowley Regis]
 
  
  
<br><br>Back to [[England]]
+
Back to [[England]]

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.


Back to England