Edensor, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Edensor is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1846 from Longton, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.Other places in the parish include: Lane End.

The original church was in Goms Mill and the current church of St Paul was built on Longton Hall Road.The Parish of Longton Hall (Edensor) St Paul is within the Longton Hall benefice of the Stoke Upon Trent Deanery of the Diocese of Lichfield. The church was rebuilt 1940-1942 to the design of architect Geoffrey Hillman.

A church district named Edensor was formed in 1846, by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: the living is in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Lichfield, alternately

From: 'Longnor - Longwathby', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 172-175. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51119 Date accessed: 01 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
Now called Longton Hall, originally formed as Edensor St Paul from part of Longton, Staffordshire St James EP Deposited parish records at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1849-1963 Mar 1863-1998 Bur 1854-1940 There are no holdings of Biship's Transcripts at Lichfield Record Office.

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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

Web sites
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