Forebridge Staffordshire Family History Guide

Forebridge is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Castle Church Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Stafford St Paul

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1844
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FOREBRIDGE, a chapelry in Castle-Church parish, Staffordshire; adjacent to the Northwestern and the Stafford and Shrewsbury railways, 1 mile SW of Stafford. Post town, Stafford.

Rated property, £8, 000. Pop., 2,531. Houses, 519. The property is much sub-divided.

The chapelry was constituted in 1844.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160. Patron, the Incumbent of Castle-Church. The church is good; and there is a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Forebridge (near Stafford) – Church records ( 3 )
Church records, 1804-1898
Author: Catholic Church. St. Austin (Forebridge near Stafford, Staffordshire); Catholic Church. St. Augustine (Stafford, Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Forebridge (near Stafford), Castle-Church, and Stafford, church records

Parish registers for Forebridge, near Stafford, 1844-1912
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Forebridge (near Stafford, Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Forebridge (near Stafford) – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments, Forebridge, Staffordshire, England, 1783-1854
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Staffordshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stafford
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Stafford
  • Poor Law Union: Stafford
  • Hundred: East Cuttlestone
  • Province: Canterbury