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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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'''Other major towns:''' Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall
  
  
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'''[[Places_of_Worship:Staffordshire| Staffordshire Places of Worship]]'''
  
  
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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'''
  
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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]
  
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*[http://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/index.html The Midlands' Digital Library]
  
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]
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*[http://www.sprs.org.uk/ Staffordshire Parish Registers Society]
  
  
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'''Countywide Interest'''
  
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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]
  
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*[http://dcdudley.tripod.com/ The North and South Staffordshire Ancestors Project]
  
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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]
  
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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]
  
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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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==Register Office Contact Details==
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*[http://www.staffshistory.org.uk/ Staffordshire History]
  
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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:
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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]
  
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*[http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
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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://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/West Midlands BMD]  
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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]
  
  
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'''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
  
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==Record Office and Cemetery Lookup Contacts==
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*[http://www.btinternet.com/~aldridgelhs/ Aldridge LHS]
  
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*[http://www.amblecote.org/ Amblecote History Society]
  
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*[http://www.bagnallvillage.com/ Bagnall Village]
  
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*[http://www.betley.net/ Betley]
  
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*[http://www.lnw1.demon.co.uk/bdghs/bdghs.htm Biddulph & District Genealogy & Historical Society]
  
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==Links==
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*[http://www.bilbrook.50megs.com/ The Village of Bilbrook]
  
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*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives County Record Office]  
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*[http://www.blythebridge.org.uk/ Blythe Bridge]
  
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*[http://www.familia.org.uk/services/england/staffordshire.html Library Link]  
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*[http://www.brownedge.com/index.php Brown Edge Village]
  
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*[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]  
  
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*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/staffs.html Local History Societies]  
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*[http://www.caverswall.org.uk/ The Parish of Caverswall]
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*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3542/ Draycott-en-le-Moors]
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*[http://www.fazeley.info/burialsbyyear.html Burials at St. Paul's Church, Fazeley 1855 - 1900]
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*[http://www.fazeley.info/marriages.html Marriages at St. Paul's Church, Fazeley 1842 - 1900]
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*[http://www.forsbrook.org.uk/ Forsbrook Village]
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*[http://www.rduckett.clara.net/little-aston/index.htm Little Aston]  
  
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*[http://www.old-maps.co.uk/gazetteer/10staff321/10staff321gazA.htm Town and Village Maps]  
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*[http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/genealogyp1.htm Madeley Genealogy]
  
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*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/staffs/staffordshire_workhouses.htm Stafford Workhouses]  
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*[http://www.odd-rode.org.uk/ Odd Rode and Surrounding Townships Under the Original Astbury Parish Umbrella]
  
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*[http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/STS/MIs.html Wishful Thinking's GENUKI: Staffordshire Pages]
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*[http://www.pelsall-history.co.uk/ Pelsall History]
  
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*[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records
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*[http://www.rowleyregis.com Rowley Regis]
  
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*[http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/blackcountry/ The Black Country]
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*[http://www.sedgleymanor.com/ The Ancient Manor of Sedgley]
  
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*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/StapOPC.htm Stapenhill OPC]
  
 
*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
 
*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
  
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*[http://www.rowleyregis.com Rowley Regis]
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent History]
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*[http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/parlist.htm Stoke-upon-Trent Parish Listing of 1701]
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Stoke-on-Trent Potters]
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*[http://www.st-marys-swynnerton.org.uk/ St Mary's Church Swynnerton - includes Gravestone Records]
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*[http://www.walsall.gov.uk/localhistorycentre Walsall Family History Centre]
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*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/home.htm Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society]
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*[http://www.wolverhamptonarchives.dial.pipex.com/churchrecords.htm Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies]
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*[http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/ Wolverhampton History, for parish register indexes click on Resources > Family History]
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'''Maps and Photographs'''
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~laetoli/lowerdovevalleytitheviewer.html Lower Dove Tithe Maps and Apportionments]
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*[http://www.search.exploringthepotteries.org.uk/engine/theme/ Old Photographs of 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]
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==Register Office==
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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:
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*[http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/ West Midlands BMD]
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==Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests==
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Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
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'''Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts'''
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*Stafford R/O. ''Monthly'' [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=637 Margo]
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==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
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Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
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'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
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*Gayton, St Peter's  [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
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==Photo Offers==
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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.
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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]
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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.


Back to England

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