Sneyd, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
Sneyd is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Burslem, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

SNEYD, a township, in the parish of Burslem, borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, union of Wolstanton and Burslem, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford; containing 1328 inhabitants. This place adjoins the town of Burslem on the east. Extensive coal-works and mines of ironstone are wrought here, and the manufacture of earthenware is largely carried on. The township and part of that of Burslem were constituted an ecclesiastical district in May 1844, under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Crown and the Bishop of Lichfield, alternately. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; and another dissenting congregation has also a meeting-house.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 126-129. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51285 Date accessed: 03 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
Sneyd Holy Trinity was formed in 1844 from part of Burslem, Staffordshire St John

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1845-1996 Mar 1853-2000 Bur no burial ground Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1851-1864 Mar none Bur none

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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.

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Web sites
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