We receive a number of requests for information from the parish registers. Often we cannot help because we do not hold the information. This page might help you before emailing your enquiry.

Friendly warning:
Requests for information from far-flung parts of the globe are answered and then passed on to the local primary schools. The students use these contacts for geography home work!

Saint Saviours, Smallthorne was built in 1850, with a small churchyard surrounding.
It was immediately used for regular worship and for so-called 'occasional offices', Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals. Many of those records are still in existence, but for security reasons few of them are held in the church.

Baptisms

Records of baptisms before 1994 are held for safe keeping by
The County record office in Stafford.
The register of baptisms after 1994 is kept in the church.

If you wish to enquire about an entry in the baptism registers after 1994 please email, giving as much information as possible: e.g. the persons name, date of birth, date of baptism.

We are sorry, but it is not possible for you to give a name and ask us to search through all the records.

Weddings

The County record office in Stafford Eastgate Street, Stafford (Tel 01785 223121 x8380) has copies of our wedding registers.

Funerals & Burials.

By the 1870's the churchyard was full for new burials and the civil authority opened a burial ground next to the churchyard.

For burials in the churchyard (most burials between 1850-1870) consult The County record office in Stafford Eastgate Street, Stafford (Tel 01785 223121 x8380). They have the register on microfiche.

Burials in the council cemetery (most burials after 1870) are held by Stoke on Trent City Council:  No email, but voice 01782 235050, fax 01782 234698. They charge a search fee.

Hope this has been some help.
May God bless you

Fr Richard Grigson, Vicar of Smallthorne