High Offley Staffordshire Family History Guide

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High Offley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Shebdon and Woodseaves.

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1689
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1659

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OFFLEY (High), a village and a parish in the district of Newport and county of Stafford. The village stands near the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, 2¾ miles E of the boundary with Salop, 3¾ S W of Eccles-hall, and 5 N W by N of Gnosall r. station.

The parish contains also the hamlets of Shebdon and Woodseaves; and its post town is Newport, Salop. Acres, 2,727. Real property, £5,259. Pop. in 1851, 786; in 1861, 883. Houses, 183. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Miss T. Hinckes. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £313. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is ancient, but good; and contains monuments of the Skrymshers, and a monument of 1851 to Bishop Ryder. Charities, £16.

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

Parish Records

Online School Records

High Offley, St. Mary’s School 1879 to 1914 Admissions

FamilySearch

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

England, Staffordshire, High Offley – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for High Offley, 1659-1875
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of High Offley (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, High Offley, parish registers : St. Mary, 1689-1901
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of High Offley (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Registers of High Offley, Staffs : baptisms, marriages, burials 1659-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of High Offley (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, High Offley – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Overseer accounts for High Offley, 1793-1825
Author: High Offley (Staffordshire, England)

England, Staffordshire, High Offley – Schools ( 1 )
England, Staffordshire, High Offley, school records : St. Mary’s High Offley School, 1879-1916
Author: Staffordshire County Record Office

England, Staffordshire, High Offley – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments, High Offley, Hill Chorlton, Horsley, Hulton Abbey and Keele, 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: Newport
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of High Offley and Flixton
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Eccleshall
  • Poor Law Union: Newport
  • Hundred: North Pirehill
  • Province: Canterbury