Whitmore, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Whitmore is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1725 from chapelry in Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

WHITMORE, a parish, in the union of Newcastleunder-Lyme, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill, and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Newcastle; containing 367 inhabitants. The parish is on the road from Newcastle to Market-Drayton, and comprises 1986a. 3r. 5p., whereof 250 acres are common or waste, inclosed under an act passed in 1841. The Liverpool and Birmingham railway has one of its principal stations here, where it attains its summit level; the buildings extend 300 feet in length. The village is beautifully situated; the cottages are kept in neat order, and ornamented with roses and woodbine. Whitmore Hall, with the grounds attached to it, forms one of the pleasantest seats in this part of the county. The living is a rectory not in charge, in the gift of Captain Mainwaring: the tithes have been commuted for £280, and the glebe comprises 29 acres. The church is a handsome structure in the later English style.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 555-557. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51400 Date accessed: 11 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.

See Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Whitmore St Mary &amp; All Saints former chapelry in Stoke on Trent St Peter

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1558-2001 Mar 1558-1995 Bur 1558-1992 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1674-1837 Mar 1674-1837 Bur 1674-1838 missing Bap/Mar/Bur 1836-1837

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Poor Law Unions
Newcastle under Lyme 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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Web sites
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