Burslem St Paul, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
Burslem St Paul is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1809 from Burslem, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

An additional church in the later English style, dedicated to St. Paul, and capable of holding 2000 persons, was erected by the Parliamentary Commissioners, in 1831, at an expense of £10,000, towards which £2000 were contributed by the parishioners and others: it stands near Longport, and has a cemetery of three acres. The living is a district perpetual curacy; net income, £109, with a house; patron, the Rector of Burslem.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 445-448. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50846 Date accessed: 03 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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
Burslem St Paul formed 1809 from part of Burslem, Staffordshire EP

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1831-1937 Mar 1845-1951 Bur 1831-1958 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1831-1869 Mar none Bur 1831-1869 missing 1859-1860, 1868

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Poor Law Unions
Wolstanton and Burslem 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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