Draycott le Moors, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Parish History
St Margaret Draycott in the Moors is an Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Totmonslow and Cresswell.

DRAYCOT-IN-THE-MOORS (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Cheadle, S. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford, 7½ miles (N. E.) from Stone.

Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England'' (1848), pp. 88-91. Date accessed: 11 April 2011.

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.

Please see Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1669-1941 Mar 1669-1948 Bur 1669-1935 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1669-1868 Mar 1669-1857 Bur 1669 -1868

Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Cheadle Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

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.

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