Farewell Staffordshire Family History Guide
Farewell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.
Alternative names: Farewell and Chorley
Other places in the parish include: Chorley.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1693
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1666
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Burntwood
- Alrewas
- King’s Bromley
- Alrewas Hays
- Lichfield St Michael
- Gentleshaw
- Longdon
- Lichfield St Chad
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FAREWELL, a parish in Lichfield district, Stafford; near the Trent Valley railway, 2¾ miles NW of Lichfield. It contains the hamlet of Chorley; and its post town is Lichfield. Acres, 1,049. Rated property, £1,601. Pop., 209. Houses, 37. The property is divided among a few. A small Benedictine nunnery was founded here, about 1140, by Bishop Clinton; and given, at the dissolution, to Cardinal Wolsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £50. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church belonged to the nunnery, and is tolerable. Charities, £31.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Lichfield
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Lichfield
- Poor Law Union: Lichfield
- Hundred: South Offlow
- Province: Canterbury















































































