Hanley, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Guide to Hanley, Staffordshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Hanley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1740 from Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

HANLEY, a township, in the parish, borough, and union of Stoke-upon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 2½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Newcastle-under-Lyme, and 150 (N. W. by N.) from London. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyaus, and other Methodists.

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
Hanley St John was formed in 1740 formerly township in Stoke St Peter EP United with Hope HolyTrinity c 1940 Parish made redundant c 1976 but re-formed as the Holy Evangelists, also incorporating Etruria St Matthew. Church closed circa 1984

Hanley parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1789-1956 Mar 1791-1976 Bur 1791-1912 These include some BT's with gaps Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop’s Transcripts Bap Mar Bur 1791-1835

Many of Staffordshire's Parish Register entries have been transcribed in full by Staffordshire Freereg and can be searched for free.

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain