Weston upon Trent, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Weston upon Trent St Andrew is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Shirleywich.

WESTON-UPON-TRENT, a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union and N. division of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles (N. E.) from Stafford; containing 562 inhabitants. The Grand Trunk canal passes through the parish. Extensive salt-works have been established here; the brine is raised in the parish of Ingestrie, by means of machinery worked by the waters of the Trent, and is conveyed across that river and under the canal, in pipes to certain reservoirs, whence it runs into iron pans, is heated, and becomes crystallized for use. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Rev. C. Inge, with a net income of £96; impropriator, William Moore, Esq. The great tithes have been commuted for £95, and those of the vicar for £25: there are 12½ acres of impropriate, and 1¼ of vicarial, glebe. The church is an ancient structure, with a large tower and spire; it was partly rebuilt in 1685, and the north aisle, which had been taken down in that year, was restored in 1825, when the chancel was also rebuilt. In 1829, the spire was reconstructed

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 524-527. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51392 Date accessed: 06 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Weston upon Trent St Andrew Ancient Parish

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1583-1969 Mar 1583-1985 Bur 1583-1899 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1666-1884 Mar  1660-1833 Bur1666-1884

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Poor Law Unions
Stafford Poor Law Union

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.

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