Hope, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
HOPE, a chapelry in Shelton township, Hanley borough, Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; near the Stoke station of the Northwestern railway, and forming part of the Potteries. It was constituted in 1845; and its post town is Hanley, under Stoke-upon-Trent.

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
Hope Holy Trinity was formed in 1845 part of Shelton, Staffordshire EP United with Hanley St john circa 1940 and church closed.

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1848-1939 Mar 1850-1940 Bur No burial ground Lichfield Record Office no holdings of Bishop’s Transcripts

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain