Adbaston, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
ADBASTON (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Newport, N. division of the hundred of Pirehilland of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Eccleshall; comprising the townships of Adbaston, Bishop's Offlow, Flashbrook, and Tunstall, and the hamlet of Knighton.

Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 9-12. Date accessed: 12 October 2012.

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.

Church records
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

Cemetery Records
The following MIs were kindly contributed by Alf Beard:

Some Monumental Inscriptions for St. Michael &amp; All Angels Churchyard

Census records


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
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