Cresswell, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
CRESSWELL, an extra-parochial liberty, in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 2 miles (N. N. W.) from Stafford, on the road to Eccleshall; containing 16 inhabitants. It comprises 800 acres, whereof two-thirds are arable, 14 acres wood, and the remainder pasture and park. The Hall is a large mansion on an eminence above the river Sow. The living is a rectory, a sinecure, in the patronage of the Rev. Edward Whitby; income, £20. The church is in ruins.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 720-725. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50904 Date accessed: 09 April 2011.

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

CRESSWELL, an extra-parochial tract in the district and county of Stafford; on the Grand Junction railway, 2 miles NW of Stafford. Acres, 800. Real property, £1, 363. Pop., 12. Houses, 2. Cresswell Hall is the seat of Capt. Whitby. The tract forms a sinecure rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £20. Patron, Capt. Whitby.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
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Probate records
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