Church Eaton, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Church Eaton St Editha is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire. Other places in the parish include: Goosemere, High Oun, Little Oun, Marston, Onn, Goose-More, Oun, Wood Eaton, Eaton Green, Goose-mere, and Orslow.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Church Eaton like this:

CHURCH-EATON, a village and a parish in Penkridge district, Stafford. The village stands near the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, 2¼ miles SSE of Gnosall r. station, and 5½ NW of Penkridge; and has a post office under Stafford. The parish includes also the villages of Marston, Wood-Eaton, Oun, Goosemere, Orslow, and Eaton-Green. Acres, 4, 204. Real property, £6, 226. Pop., 643. Houses, 145. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £976.* Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church is chiefly Norman. A grammar school has £128 from endowment; and other charities, £74.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Penkridge 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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