• Located At: Staffordshire Record Office
• Document Reference Number: D24, D874, D1274, D3193, D3402, D4877, D4939, D5165, D6425, D6634, D6685, D7129, D7421, 7800/1
• Date: 1590-2007
• Level: Collection
• Extent: (4874 items)
• Administrative History: Colwich is an ancient parish, in existence since the medieval period. It included the chepelry of Fradwell, until that was made that was separated as an ecclesiastical parish in 1851 and separate civil parish in 1866. Colwich parish boundaries were altered in 1848 when the parish of Hixon was created, and again in 1854 when the neighbouring parish of Great Haywood was created.
• Format: Religious bodies
• Description: The collection comprises:
  Incumbent and benefice: registers of baptisms 1590-1978, marriages 1590-1958, burials 1590-2007, banns 1889-1963, confirmations 1910-1940; curate's licences, 1834-1863; register and orders of services, 1782-1990; papers relating to glebe and other endowments, tithe, parsonage, benefice income, parish boundaries 19th-20th century; vicar's memoranda and notebooks 1851-1928; notes for sermons and other papers, 19th-20th century
  Parish administration, ecclesiastical: churchwardens visitations, terriers, inventories, faculties, papers concerning building and maintenance and sequestration, 18th-20th century; churchwardens' accounts and vouchers 1753-1929, rates 1781-1836; grave register and plan, 20th cent.; vestry minutes and papers, 1758-1941; Parochial Church Council records, 1917-1987;
  Parish administration, civil: overseer of the poor rates 1758-1835, accounts and vouchers 1752-1904; poor relief papers 1756-1865; settlement certificates, examinations and removal orders 1744-1865, bastardy examinations, orders and bonds 1754-1834, apprenticeship registers and indentures 1741-1844, census returns 1811, tax assessment papers 1771-1845 and other papers; constables accounts and vouchers 1752-1835, warrants to apprehend 1758-1797, militia papers 1794-1827, informations and orders 1757-1835
  Parish charities: records relating to parochial charities, almshouses and charities of Alport, Anstis and Webb, Chubbock, Crompton, Featherston, Hawkin, Jordan, Levett, Mottershaw, Trubshaw; shoe club and school club, 1786-1954
  Parochial school: deeds, managers' minutes, plans, HMI reports, financial papers and correspondence, 1863-1954
  Statutory deposits: Colwich tithe apportionment and map, 1839, 1845; Fradswell Heath inclosure award and map, 1856
  Miscellaneous: photographs and magic lantern slides, 19th-20th century; records of the manor of Colwich, 1756-1835; Breeches Bible, 18th century edition; miscellaneous papers, 18th-20th century; WWI roll of honour
  
  Note: accession D6425 is not fully catalogued and consists of additional parish records including PCC minutes; archaelogical survey and parish magazines, 20th cent. and a monumental inscription survey, 2001. (0.5 box) Please ask for further details.
• Category:Church of England
• Category:Church administration
• Related Places: Colwich
• Access Conditions: The records are open to public inspection.
• Reproduction Conditions: Any questions concerning the publication of images of documents in this collection should be directed to the County Archivist, Staffordshire Record Office, Eastgate Street, Stafford ST16 2 LZ.
• Accession Number: SRO 7129
• Accession Number: SRO 7421
• Accession Number: SRO 6425
• Accession Number: SRO 7800
• Ref No: CD115

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