Cannock, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Cannock, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CANNOCK (St. Luke), a parish, in the union of Penkridge, E. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, S. division of the county of Stafford, 8 miles (N. by W.) from Walsall. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Chapelries of Cannock
Cannock St Luke Ancient Parish

Cannock St Luke parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1659-1970 Mar 1659-1971 Bur 1659-1929 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1659-1827 Mar 1659-1837 Bur 1659-1867 Bap/Bur 1858-1865

Hednesford St Peter Chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

'''Hednesford St Saviour Also known as St Saviours Green Heath. Former Mission Church to St Peters Hednesford, '''registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

St John the Evangelist (Heath Hayes) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Cannock St Chad (Chadsmoor) was a district/mission church built in 1892 within this parish

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1937-1994 Mar 1960-1992 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office

Cannock St Aidan (West Chadsmoor)

Cannock St Barnabas was built as a mission church in 1960; any records are with the incumbent of St Luke from 1962 and at Cannock St Luke church.

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

 * 1532/3 - A List of Families in 1532/3

Poor Law Unions
Penkridge 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Cannock/index.html