Armitage, Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Armitage is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Handsacre and Brereton.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1673
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1623

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ARMITAGE, a parish in Lichfield district, Stafford; on the Northwestern railway and the Grand Trunk canal, 5½ miles NW of Lichfield. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Rugeley; and it includes the hamlet of Handsacre and part of the village of Brereton. Acres, 1,921. Rated property, £4,943. Pop., 937. Houses, 206.

The property is divided among a few. Armitage Park is a fine mansion. The Grand Trunk canal, in its course within the parish, passes through a large tunnel.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church stands on a rocky eminence; has a Norman doorway, and an interior hand some arch; and is a picturesque object. A church stood formerly at Handsacre, but is now a ruin.

There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans. Charities, £9.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Armitage with Handsacre, 1 mile S.E. Rudgley. P. 987.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Staffordshire, Handsacre

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

England, Staffordshire, Armitage – Church records ( 7 )
Armitage parish register
Author: Tildesley, Norman W. (Norman William), 1900-; Church of England. Parish Church of Armitage (Staffordshire)

Armitage parish register
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Armitage (Staffordshire); Tildesley, Norman W. (Norman William), 1900-

Baptisms, 1821-1837
Author: Independent Church (Armitage)

Bishop’s transcripts for Armitage, 1623-1863
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Armitage (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Armitage, parish registers, 1673-1901
Author: Staffordshire County Record Office; Church of England. Parish Church of Armitage (Staffordshire)

Marriage licenses, bonds, affidavits (allegations), etc., of the parish and peculiar of Armitage, 1731-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Armitage (Staffordshire)

Registers of the Staffordshire parishes
Author: Ridsdale, J. R. W.; Carroll, P., Mrs.; Davies, T.

England, Staffordshire, Armitage – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish printout of Armitage parish, Staffordshire, England

Parish register printouts of Armitage, Stafford, England (Independent) ; christenings, 1821-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Staffordshire, Armitage – Occupations ( 1 )
Armitage parish records relating to the poor, 1691-1855
Author: Armitage (Staffordshire, England)

England, Staffordshire, Armitage – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Armitage parish records relating to the poor, 1691-1855
Author: Armitage (Staffordshire, England)

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

FamilySearch Historical Records

Directories

1854 Post office directory of Birmingham, Warwickshire, and part of Staffordshire – Google Books

Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Lichfield
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Hansacre and Armitage
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Rugeley
  • Poor Law Union: Lichfield
  • Hundred: South Offlow
  • Province: Canterbury