Chartley Holme, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire Staffordshire Parishes

Parish History
CHARTLEY-HOLME, an extra-parochial liberty,locally in the parish of Stowe, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union, and N. division of the county,of Stafford, 7½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Stafford.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chartley Holme like this:

CHARTLEY-HOLME, or Chartley-Lodge, an extra parochial tract in the district and county of Stafford; adjacent to Stowe parish, 5½ miles SW by W of Uttoxeter. Real property, £9, 126. Pop., 36. Houses, 7. It belonged to the De Blandeville, the Ferrars, the Devereux, and the Shirley families; and belongs now to Earl Ferrers. The main features of it are Chartley Park and Chartley Castle, the seat of Earl Ferrers; the latter a modern structure, burnt in 1847. Other objects are the tower of a castle, built in 1220 by Richard de Blandeville, and two round towers of a timbered house which was the prison of Mary Queen of Scots, and burnt in 1781.

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
Chartley Holme is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information. England Jurisdictions 1851 may be helpful Stowe, Staffordshire is the relevant parish

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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain