Wellington, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Wellington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Hanley, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

Wellington forms part of Hanley In A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 396-401. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51003 Date accessed: 01 April 2011.

Two districts, respectively named Northwood and Wellington, were formed in 1845, and endowed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, under the 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37: each of the livings is in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Lichfield, alternately. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and other Methodists; and national schools are supported by subscription, aided by part of the late Dr. Woodhouse's gift in support of the various schools within the parish of Stoke.

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.

See Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Hanley St Luke (Wellington) was formed in 1845 from part of Hanley, Staffordshire St John

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap1848-1969 Mar 1854-1975 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office no holdings of Bishop's Transcripts

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Census records
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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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