Society of Genealogists - England: Staffordshire Resources

Staffordshire

Shelf Mark: ST

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers
Marriage Licences
Monumental Inscriptions
Censuses
Directories & Poll Books
Periodicals
Wills
Parishes: A-H | I-Z

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Shropshire [&] Staffordshire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 6 North & East Midlands, part 1, Staffordshire. 2nd rev. edn. London: SoG, 1992. [TB/PR]

Handlist of parish registers deposited in the Staffordshire Record Office [Staffordshire tracts box]

Nonconformist registers: Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service guide to sources no. 2 [Shelf 9 (ST/REG)]

Parish registers & bishops' transcripts: Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service guide to sources no. 1 [ST/R 121]

Parish registers of Staffordshire [with] list of out county parish registers printed transcripts at the William Salt Library [Typescript.] [Box 59/folder 14]

Pete's guide to census, parish & nonconformist records for the Black Country, covering the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall & Wolverhampton [Shelf 9 (ST/GEN)]

Staffordshire County Record Office & William Salt Library list of Staffordshire parish registers transcripts & copies (excluding Bishop's transcripts) [Typescript.] [Staffordshire tracts box]

Staffordshire Parish Registers Society: the society - its 1st 100 years [Staffordshire tracts box]

Walsall, Wednesbury, Wolverhampton, Himley & West Bromwich [parish register guide] [Staffordshire tracts box]

Wolverhampton Archives registers of baptisms, marriages & burials [list of holdings only] [Shelf 9 (ST/GEN)]

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry unwanted certificates 2nd & 3rd collections [WA/G 31 & 38]

Catalogue of the muniments & manuscript books pertaining to the Dean & Chapter of Lichfield ...: Collections for a history of Staffordshire, vol. 6 part 2, 1886 [ST/PER]

General strays A-Z [showing people from Staffordshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire in censuses outside their county of birth or recorded in other events such as baptisms, marriages, burials, MIs, removal orders and the like] - Staffordshire [Microfiche.] [WA/GEN/83943/1-18]

The J N Thompson late baptism index [Shelf 9 (UK/REG)]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Cheshire & Staffordshire Quarterly Meeting: Z 1648-1837 & 1776-1837, M 1655-1837 & 1688-1776, B 1655-1837 & 1776-1837 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3376]

Staffordshire advertiser: ZMD(I) 1795-1840: Staffordshire Record Society occasional papers nos. 1 & 2 [ST/PER]

Unrelated certificates index [5th collection] [WA/G 40]

Marriage licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

Abstracts of the marriage bonds & allegations of the Diocese of Lichfield ... 1711-16: A-Z by groom [Microfiche.] [ML/LIC/57043/1-6 & ML/LIC/82806/1-6]

Lichfield Joint Record Office: marriage bonds of the Peculiars (1615-1748) [Typescript.] [ML/GEN]

Marriage bonds of the Peculiars of Derbyshire & the Peak, 1615-1729 [Typescript.] [ML/LIC]

Marriage bonds of the Peculiars of the Diocese of Lichfield: miscellaneous, 1628-1748 [Typescript.] [ML/LIC]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

The incised figures of Staffordshire [Store A folio shelves]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. Wednesbury 1801 census

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

STAFFORDSHIRE - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

STAFFORDSHIRE - DIRECTORIES

or STAFFORDSHIRE - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at 1837-online (formerly 1837online.com)

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

STAFFORDSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Parishes

A-H

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Staffordshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

I-Z

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

Visit the GENUKI pages for Staffordshire