Colwich Staffordshire Family History Guide
Colwich is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Pershall, Millmeece, Mill Meece, Little Sugnall, Horseley with Garmelo, Cotmere and Offley Hay, Horseley, Hill Chorlton, Great Sugnall, Croxton, Coldmeece, Cold Meece, Chorlton with Stableford, Chatcull, Charnes, Aspley, Wootton, Podmore, Slindon, Sugnall Magna, Sugnall Parva, Three Farms, Walton, and Bromley.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1590
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1659
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Roman Catholic.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Colwich
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COLWICH, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in the district and county of Stafford. The village stands adjacent to the river Trent, the Grand Trunk canal, and the Trent Valley railway, near the junction of the North Stafford railway, 6½ miles ESE of Stafford; is beautifully situated; and has a r. station at the junction, and a post office under Stafford.
The parish contains also the townships or hamlets of Fradswell, Bishton, Moreton, Wolseley, Shugborough, Swanmoor, and Mount-Priory, the post office of Wolseley-Bridge, under Stafford, and parts of the townships of Droiuton, Great Haywood, Little Haywood, and Hixon. Acres, 8,975. Real property, £26,583. Pop., 1,828. Houses, 371. The property is subdivided.
Shugborough Park, a beautiful mansion, amid charming grounds, is the seat of the Earl of Lichfield, and was the birth-place of Lord Anson, the great navigator.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £514. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is ancient; and contains monuments of the Ansons and the Wolseleys. The vicarages of Fradswell, Great Haywood, and Hixon are separate benefices. Charities, £79.
The sub-district contain s six parishes, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 21,370. Pop., 4,322. Houses, 893.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Mount Priory
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
MOUNT-PRIORY, a hamlet in Colwich parish, Staffordshire; 5 ½ miles ESE of Stafford. Pop., 44.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Online School Records
School records are a primary source for genealogists. The two types of records that are commonly available are admission registers and log books.
The admission registers of schools may be available from the 1870s, but more frequently from 1902. Usually shown under the date of entry, is the child’s name and address and his or her date of birth. Some registers, but not all, may also show the name and occupation of the parent or guardian, the name of the previous school attended and the reason for leaving.
For immigrant children the name of the previous school may uniquely provide the pupil’s exact place of origin.
These admission registers may enable the brothers and sisters of a pupil to be identified in a way that, with frequent names, would be difficult if not impossible from the civil registration records.
The log book may contain comments on the attendance of pupils, behaviour, discipline, the curriculum, attendance of teachers and absence for sickness etc., and the effect of epidemics and seasonal work on attendance. The names of individual pupils only occasionally appear in log books. The names and status of the teachers were recorded at the annual inspection, with a summary of the inspector’s report.
The following school records are available from Findmypast
Colwich School later Colwich Ce(C) Primary School (Boys mixed From 1886) 1872 to 1897 Admissions
Colwich School later Colwich Ce(C) Primary School infants 1876 to 1905 Admissions
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Stafford
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Colwich
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Rugeley
- Poor Law Union: Stafford
- Hundred: South Pirehill
- Province: Canterbury