Northwood, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Northwood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Hanley, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

NORTHWOOD, an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford; immediately adjoining the town of Hanley. The district of Northwood was constituted in 1845, under the provisions of the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; and is one mile and a half in length, and the same extent in breadth, one portion of it very high, and overlooking the surrounding country. The river Trent runs on the eastern side, but the Trent and Mersey canal forms the exact boundary in that direction. Coal and ironstone are wrought, and the manufacture of pottery-ware is largely carried on. The district became a parish on the consecration of the church, which has just been built: the edifice occupies an eligible site, and is in the early English style; the cost has been estimated at £2400. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Crown and the Bishop of Lichfield, alternately; net income, £150. The Methodists of the New Connexion have a place of worship.

From: 'Northiam - Nortoft', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 433-439. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51184 Date accessed: 01 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Northwood Holy Trinity formed 1845 from part of Hanley, Staffordshire St John EP

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1848-1961 Mar 1849-1987 Bur 1849-1867 Lichfield Record Officeno holdings of Bishop’s Transcripts

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Poor Law Unions
Stoke Upon Trent Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Probate records
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.

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Web sites
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