Butterton (near Leek), Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Butterton (near Leek) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1775 from chapelry in Mayfield, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

BUTTERTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Mayfield, S. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, N. division of the county of Stafford, 7 miles (E.) from Leek; containing 388 inhabitants. The river Manifold runs through the district, which comprises by computation 1300 acres: limestone is quarried, and a small quantity of gritstone; and a lead-mine is in operation. Portions of copper-ore, stalactites, fossil shells, and an ore called by the miners "brown end," convertible into zinc, are found; and there is a mineral spring strongly impregnated with sulphur. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £90; patron, the Vicar of Mayfield: impropriator, the Duke of Devonshire. The chapel, a neat stone edifice with a tower, was built in 1780. William Mellor, in 1754, bequeathed property now producing £16 a year, for which children are taught to read.

From: 'Bushley - Butterworth', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 460-462. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50849 Date accessed: 30 March 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Alstonfield Gilbert Poor Law Union (later Alstonfield Union), Staffordshire until dissolution of the Gilbert Union to become in 1869 part of

Leek 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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