Newchapel, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Newchapel is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1715 from Wolstanton, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Chell and Ravenscliffe.

THURSFIELD, or New-Chapel, a chapelry, in the parish of Wolstanton, union of Wolstanton and Burslem, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 6½ miles (N. by E.) from Newcastle; containing, with the townships of Brieryhurst, Chell, Stadmerslow, and Wedgwood, 3191 inhabitants, of whom 495 are in the township of Thursfield. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £81; patrons, Ralph Sneyd, Esq., and others. The chapel is a plain brick edifice, erected in 1767, and re-roofed in 1827. Dr. Robert Hulme, in 1708, bequeathed certain lands now producing an income of £73, for instruction. James Brindley, of Turnhurst, the celebrated engineer, was interred here in 1772; and a plain altar-tomb has been erected to his memory.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 351-355. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51342 Date accessed: 03 April 2011.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Newchapel like this:

THURSFIELD, or Newchapel, a chapelry in Wolstanton parish, Stafford; 1½ mile E by N of Kidsgrove-Junction r. station, and 3 N of Burslem. It was constituted in 1846; it extends much beyond T. proper, or T. township; and it has a post-office, of the name of Newchapel, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop., 3,440. Houses, 630. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £110.* Patrons, R. Sneyd, Esq., and others. The church was built in 1767, and repaired in 1827. There is a national school.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Newchapel St James the Apostle was formed in 1715 from part of Wolstanton, Staffordshire

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1723-1906 Mar 1741-1910 (partly BT's) Bur 1724-1897 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1662-1881 Mar 1742-1755 Bur 1662-1881

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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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