Fazeley Staffordshire Family History Guide

Fazeley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1813 from Tamworth Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Bitterscote, Bonehill, Dunstall, and Bangley.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1816
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1843

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FAZELEY, a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Tamworth district, Stafford. The village stands on Watling-street and on the Fazeley canal, adjacent to the river Tame, and near the Birmingham and Derby railway, 1½ mile S of Tamworth; and has a post office under Tamworth, and a station, jointly with Wilnecote, on the railway.

It is famous for the cotton manufacture carried on at it by the first Sir Robert Peel; and its chief business still is the cotton manufacture and extensive bleaching.

Fairs are held on the second Monday of Jan., Feb., April, Sep., and Dec.; on the third Monday of July, Aug., and Nov.; on the last Monday of March, May, and June; and on the first Monday after Old Michaelmas.

A bridge over the Tame here is on the line of Watling-street, and connects Staffordshire with Warwickshire. The Fazeley canal goes into junction with the Coventry and Birmingham canals.

The township includes the village; and is in Tamworth parish. Real property, £7,895. Pop., 1,341. Houses, 258.

The chapelry is more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1842. Pop., 1,652. Houses, 327.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, 220. Patron, Sir R. Peel, Bart. The church is modern; and there are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans.

The sub-district includes two Warwickshire townships of Tamworth parish, four Staffordshire liberties of that parish, two entire Warwickshire parishes, and three entire Staffordshire parishes. Acres, 20,564. Pop., 6,857. Houses, 1,387.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Fazeley – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of St. Paul’s Church, Fazeley, Staffordshire
Author: Harris, Pauline; Women’s Institute. Fazeley Women’s Institute (Staffordshire); Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry; Church of England. Chapelry of Fazeley (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Fazeley – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Fazeley, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Staffordshire, Fazeley – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Fazeley, 1842-1867
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Fazeley (Staffordshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Fazeley, 1842-1867
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Fazeley (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Fazeley, parish registers : St. Paul, 1816-1900
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Fazeley (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

England, Staffordshire, Fazeley – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Fazeley, Stafford, England ; christenings, 1842-1867
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Staffordshire, Fazeley – Directories ( 1 )
Tamworth directories

England, Staffordshire, Fazeley – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Elford and Fazeley, 1772-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Staffordshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Tamworth
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Tamworth
  • Poor Law Union: Tamworth
  • Hundred: South Offlow
  • Province: Canterbury