Repository:Lichfield Record Office

Watchers
Repository Lichfield Record Office
Postal Address Lichfield Record Office
The Friary
Lichfield
WS13 6QG
Place Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
Phone (+44) 01543-510720
URL http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/contact/LichfieldRecordOffice/

By email: lichfield.record.office@staffordshire.gov.uk

It is essential that you make an appointment to visit the office, ensure that we hold the records that you are interested in, and bring acceptable proof of identity and address for reader registration.

Holdings

  • Anglican Parish Registers (Free access to the 'Staffordshire Collection' on Findmypast)
  • Bishops Transcripts (diocese of Lichfield 1660-1880 plus north and east Warwickshire to 1840 and Derbyshire to 1860)
  • Marriage Bonds and Allegations
  • Nonconformist registers (Registers of baptisms and marriages for some nonconformist churches in the city and in the Tamworth and Lichfield Methodist Circuit.)
  • Wills, Inventories and Probate papers (Consistory Court of Lichfield and in the peculiar courts, c1520-1858)
  • Census Returns and Indexes (Lichfield district complete 1841-1901, for other areas, see website)
  • Ancestry.co.uk (free access)
  • Electoral Registers
  • Poor Law Records (Burton, Tamworth and Lichfield Poor Law Unions full records; admission and discharge registers for Stafford and Seisdon workhouses)
  • Cemetery Records on CD-ROM
  • Divorce Indexes on CD-ROM
  • National Burial Index for England and Wales on CD-ROM
  • Staffordshire Monumental Inscriptions on CD-ROM
  • Soldiers Died in the Great War (1914-1918) on CD-ROM
  • Army Roll of Honour for World War II
  • Staffordshire Landed Gentry 1086-1702 on CD-ROM
  • Mormon Immigration (into USA) Index on CD-ROM