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Parish History

WESTON-UPON-TRENT, a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union and N. division of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles (N. E.) from Stafford. [1]

Resources

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

Weston upon Trent St Andrew Ancient Parish

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1583-1969 Mar 1583-1985  Bur 1583-1899
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1666-1884 Mar  1660-1833 Bur1666-1884

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Census records

Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 474623. To view these census images online, they are available through the following websites for a fee ($) or free:

  • FamilySearch has some of the British Censuses available.
  • FindMyPast ($) has all available census records including images, and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and some public and academic libraries.
  • Ancestry.co.uk ($) has now all available census records but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and at numerous public and academic libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com.
  • The Genealogist.co.uk ($) has all available censuses and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries.
  • FreeCen is a UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.

Poor Law Unions

Stafford Poor Law Union

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

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Web sites

References

  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 524-527. Date accessed: 06 November 2012.

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