Harlaston Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Harlaston is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1846 from a chapelry in Clifton Campville with Chilcote Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Harleston

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1693
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1679

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HARLASTON, or HARLESTON, a parochial chapelry in Clifton-Campville parish, Stafford; on an affluent of the river Trent, adjacent to the Birmingham and Derby railway, near the boundary with Derbyshire, 1 mile ENE of Haselour r. station, and 4 N of Tamworth. Post-town, Clifton-Campville, under Tamworth. Real property, £2,532. Pop., 239. Houses, 56. The manor house was ancient; but has been rebuilt. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £444. Patron, Francis Willington, Esq. The church has an old wooden belfry.

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

Parish Records

Online School Records

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Harlaston Church Of England School (Infants) 1905 to 1914 Admissions

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England, Staffordshire, Harleston

England, Staffordshire, Harlaston – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of St. Matthew, Harlaston, Staffordshire
Author: Duffell, Peter; Duffell, Peter; Duffell, Gill; Manning, Nancy; Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry

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

England, Staffordshire, Harlaston – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Harlaston, 1665-1870
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Harlaston (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Harlaston, parish registers : St. Matthew, 1693-1913
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Harlaston (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

England, Staffordshire, Harlaston – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Harlaston, Stafford, England ; christenings, 1665-1809
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Harlaston, Stafford, England ; christenings, 1890-1870
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Staffordshire, Harlaston – Schools ( 1 )
England, Staffordshire, Harlaston, school records, 1905-1916
Author: Staffordshire County Record Office

England, Staffordshire, Harlaston – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments, Harlaston, Staffordshire, England, 1781-1831
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: North Offlow
  • Province: Canterbury