Find a Forsbrook burial record

Start with the name of the burial ground. Forsbrook Parish Council holds the cemetery records. St Peter’s church is the first contact for an entry in its churchyard register. A death registered in Staffordshire does not by itself identify either place.

Search the historical register, 1903 to 2014

Open the archived Forsbrook cemetery register. This is a preserved copy of the former council website. Its earliest listed burial is 13 December 1903 and the last listed burial is 8 April 2014. Each row includes a surname, forenames, a burial date and a grave-number field. Some entries have a blank field or an unusual spelling.

Use your browser’s Find on page and enter the surname. Where a surname occurs more than once, compare the forenames, age and burial date. Copy the grave number exactly as it appears, including any section letter, and ask the parish clerk for help locating it on the ground. The reference number in the first column identifies the register entry itself.

Recent burials and official confirmation

Open the official Forsbrook burial register. If the search box does not appear or a name returns no match, ask the parish clerk to check the register. Give the person's full name, any other spelling and an approximate year. It helps to say whether your date comes from a death certificate, a funeral notice or a headstone.

Ask for the date of burial, section and grave number. If you hope to visit, ask whether the clerk can identify the position on a cemetery plan. Where two people share a name, the names of relatives buried with them may distinguish the entries.

What the earlier website held

An archived cemetery records page from 2013 describes a Word download covering burials from 1903. This identifies the scope the council advertised at the time. It gives no assurance that every later burial appeared in that file. Use the current clerk or register for a record you intend to rely on.

Looking for a churchyard burial

If family papers mention St Peter’s, contact the church with the name and approximate year. Say if you are looking for a burial entry or for the position of a stone. Registers may survive for graves that have no legible marker. Older registers may have been deposited with the county archive.

For searches across several generations, Staffordshire County Council explains how to access digitised parish material through libraries and the Staffordshire History Centre. Note the parish, record type, date and page or entry number alongside each result. Read the county’s family history guide.

A missing name

Widen the date range and try initials or an earlier surname. Check the burial place separately from the place of the funeral. Staffordshire Moorlands’ downloadable registers concern the district’s own cemeteries. For a Forsbrook parish grave its guidance sends researchers back to the parish clerk.