Goldenhill, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Goldenhill, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
GOLDEN-HILL, a village, in the township of Oldcott, parish of Wolstanton, union of Wolstantonand Burslem, hundred of Pirehill, county of Stafford, 2½ miles (N. N. W.) from Burslem.

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
Goldenhill St John the Evangelist was formed from part of Wolstanton, Staffordshire in 1842.

Goldenhill parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Staffordshive Record Office.

Genealogy From Periodicals
Burdette, Norris C. Burdett History. History of descendants of William Burdett of Naseby, Northamptonshire, wife unknown, listing the children, born 1713 onwards. Part of the family go to Staffordshire, Golden Hill. One of the later descendants, Oliver Burdett, emigrates to USA, in 1842, to Pennyslvania, Sharron, and Garden City, and Minnesota, Minneapolis. Pictures also included. Surnames listed, Falkner, Cheney, Linnett, Sewall, Johnston, Lyons, West, North, Osborne, Moors, Cardillie, Hagman. Article dated 1713-1983, and is found in Footprints, Northamptonshire Family History Society Magazine. vol. 6.no.2,pages 55-58. Family History Library Ref. 942.55 D25fo vol.6.

Poor Law Unions
Wolstanton and Burslem 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain