Yoxall, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Yoxall, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Yoxall, Staffordshire | |
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | North Offlow |
| County | Staffordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Lichfield |
| Registration District | Lichfield |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1645 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1664; Separate records exist for Needwood Forest beginning 1813 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Lichfield |
| Diocese | Lichfield |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Peculiar of Alrewas and Weeford |
| Location of Archive | |
| Staffordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
YOXHALL (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Lichfield, N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 7½ miles (N. N. E.) from Lichfield. There is a place of worship for Primitive Methodists, and a Roman Catholic chapel. [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 Staffordshire BMD have indexes for births marriages and deaths. Due to March 2011 reorganisation of the registration service for South Staffordshire districts the historical registration indexes for this district have been located at the Newcastle under Lyme registration district (formerly held at Lichfield) and applications for certificates need to be directed there. Please refer to the "Updates" page of Staffordshire BMD for further information.
Church records
Yoxall parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = Staffordshire Parish Register Collection (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[3] | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch - free[4] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[5] |
| YOXALL ST PETER PARISH (1629) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images |
| FMP | 1644-1900 | 1644-1900 | 1683-1900 | 1683-1900 | 1668-1879 | 1668-1879 |
| FREG | 1813-1862 | |
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1813-1879 | | |
| FS | 1666-1770, 1782-1856 | |
1666-1770, 1782-1856 | |
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Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1645-1909 Mar 1682-1983 Bur 1678-1879 (partially BT's)
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1664-1871Mar 1664-1878 Bur 1664-1871 Bap/Bur missing 1870
Census records
- 1532/3 - A List of Families in Yoxall, Staffordshire Genealogy 1532/3 FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8[6]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions
Lichfield 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.
Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Yoxall/index.html
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 719-742. Date accessed: 01 November 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 23 July 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 28 September 2014.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (N-Z), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 23 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 September 2013.
- ↑ Ann J. Kettle, A List of Families in the Archdeaconry of Stafford, 1532-3 (Stafford: Staffordshire Record Society, 1976). FHL British Book 942.46 B4sc ser. 4 v. 8
