Burslem, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Burslem, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Burslem, Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | North Pirehill |
| County | Staffordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Wolstanton and Burslem |
| Registration District | Wolstanton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1637 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1660 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Stoke upon Trent |
| Diocese | Lichfield |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Staffordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Burslem is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1849 from chapelry in Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Abbey Halton, Abbey Hulton, Abbey Hulton with Milton with Sneyd Green, Burslem with Dale Hall and Longport, Sneyd Green, Longport, Rushton Grange, Rushton Green, and Dale Hall. Non-Church of England denominations identified in Burslem include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Formerly a chapelry of Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire, Burslem St John became a parish in 1849.
Burslem St John the Baptist parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BURSLEM ST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH (1578) Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1638-1891 | 1639-1890 | ||||
| FMP | 1640-1901 | 1640-1901 | 1640-1902 | 1640-1902 | 1643-1903 | 1643-1903 |
| FREG | 1578-1837 | 1578-1837 | 1578-1837 | |||
| FS | 1581-1856 | 1578-1837 | ||||
| IARC | 1578-1761 | 1578-1761 | 1578-1761 | |||
| IARC | 1761-1809 | 1761-1809 | 1761-1809 | |||
| IARC | 1809-1812 | 1809-1812 | 1809-1812 | |||
| JOIN | 1578-1812 | |||||
| NBI | 1578-1892 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1637-1927 Mar 1637-1946 Bur 1637-1947 (early records are BT's
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1660-1856 Mar 1660-1837 Bur 1660-1856 missing 1673/1675, 1708-1710, 1717-1720
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
Zoar Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| ZOAR CHAPEL (1811) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1811-1868 |
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Albion St. Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| ALBION ST. METHODIST CHAPEL (1938) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1938-1966 |
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'Clarence St. Methodist Chapel'(Longport) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| CLARENCE ST. METHODIST CHAPEL (LONGPORT) (1946) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1946 |
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Dale Hall Zion Methodist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| ZION HALL METHODIST CHAPEL (1925) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1951-1955 |
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Cemetery Records[edit | edit source]
FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1948-1950
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union, Staffordshire
Probate records
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Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Staffordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers
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Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Burslem/index.html
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ http://maps.familysearch.org/
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 11 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Parish Records Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 21 August 2014.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 24 Jan 2015.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (A-M), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 18 September 2013.
- ↑ .
- ↑ Staffordshire Coverage, The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 13 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 September 2013.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
