Genealogy

We have had many enquiries from people researching their family tree. As a result of this we have set up this page. We do our best to ask around but if you have any useful information please let us know as we are not experts, we are just hoping to help out a little. Please note also the work that is currently being undertaken researching Ellastone during the days of WW1 – contributions would be very welcome, please send us an email - we would love to hear from you.

The Ellastone Parish records are kept in the Record Office in Stafford.

Records up to the year 1700 can be accessed online at  Ellastone Register (1578-1700). You may find it easier going onto the FreeReg site. After 1700 they are on micro-fiche in Stafford.

There is a digitalisation project covering all Parish Records held in Staffordshire in conjunction with findmypast which will mean that everything should be available online from soon if it isn't there already. Enquirers could either subscribe to findmypast or get free access at a library.

It is interesting to read Staffordshire County Council has just agreed to spend £4 million on a new centralised records and archives centre. This will be very interesting to those people wishing to trace family members.

There are many interesting memorials and gravestones in the Churchyard. However, apart from recent burials there is currently no plan available of the Churchyard. There are details of some 200 headstone inscriptions on Memorial Inscriptions. Please note that the graveyard does not have visible gravestones before the 18th Century.