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Ashley Our Blessed
Lady & St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.At Eccleshall:- C. 1886-1911
Deaths. 1888-1914
(Film Sts 34)
Catholic
Registry includes:- Bloxwich, St. Thomas Chapel
CMB 1805-1822, Confirmations 1805-1822. Bloxwich & Walsall CMB
1823-1829, Confirmations 1823-1829. Confirmations
1843.
(Film Sts 2)
Cheadle, St. Giles
Catholic Church. C. 1892-1928 Confirmations 1855-1969
M. 1855-1923 Deaths 1855-1898
(Film Sts 34)
Cresswell, St.
Mary’s Catholic Church.C. 1780-1819, 1780-1919
Deaths & B. 1837-1855
(Film Sts 34)
Eccleshall Our
Blessed Lady & St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
C. 1886-1911 Deaths. 1888-1914
(Film Sts 34)
Great Haywood Bellamore
Chapel C. 1791-1821, 1837-1842
After 1845 this became Great Haywood St. John the Baptist Church.
(Film Sts 34)
Great Haywood St.
John the Baptist Catholic Church.
(includes the Bellamore Chapel & Tixall from 1845)
(Film Sts 34)
Lichfield Holy
Cross Chapel C. 1788-1947 Confirmations 1801-1838
Converts 1944-1983
(Film Sts 34)
Tixall St. John
the Baptist Catholic Church. C. 1798-1837 Confirmations1802-1830,1835
M. 1799-1831, 1837, 1853 Deaths 1799-1829
After 1845 this became Great Haywood St. John the Baptist Church.
(See above)
Wills
before 1858 were proved in Ecclesiastical Courts. The principal
one for Staffordshire was the Archdeaconry of Stafford
in the Diocese of Lichfield.
The Superior Court was
the PCC. Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
(See England General).
Consistory Court of Lichfield. This Court covered all or part of the following
Counties:-
Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Shropshire until
1858.
Until 1540 the Court also covered Cheshire, Flintshire,
Denbigh and parts of Lancashire.
1. Calendar of Wills & Admons.
1494 - 1650 A - L
(Film Sts 26)
2. Calendar of Wills & Admons.
1492 - 1650 M - Z.
Black Book of Lichfield.
Calendar of Copy Wills.
1657 - 1666.
Sequestration of Tithes.
1635 - 1637.
Costs of Suits received by Notary
Publick. 1616 - 1638.
Presentations to Livings.
1603 - 1609.
Sundry Wills as indexed in calendar.
(Film Sts 27)
3. Calendar of Wills & Admons.
1651 - 1725. A - Y.
Corrections
(Film Sts 28)
4. Calendar of Wills & Admons.
1726 - 1775. A - Y.
(Film Sts 29)
5. Calendar of Wills & Admons.
1776 - 1820 A - Y.
(Film Sts 30)
6. Calendar of Wills
& Admons. 1821 - 1860 A - Y.
(Film Sts 31)
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