Longton, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LONGTON, with Lane-End, a market-town and district parish, in the parish and union of Stoke-uponTrent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Newcastle-under-Lyme, 14 (N.) from Stafford, and 150(N. W. by N.) from London. There are places ofworship for Baptists, Independents, Calvinistic Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, Wesleyans,and other dissenters; also a Roman Catholic chapel.

Longton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1802 from chapelry in Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Longton St James.

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
Longton St John (Lane End) was originally a chapelry of Stoke St Peter

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1764-1976 Mar 1866-1978 Bur 1764-1975 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop’s Transcripts Bap 1764-1868 Mar no holdings Bur 1764-1868 Missing 1854-1855 Bap and bur

Longton St James the Less was formed from from part of Longton St John EP From 1979 St James and St John

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

Cemetery Records
Longton Cemetery

FREG has transcribed the following Burial Registers1878-1896, 1964-1969

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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Longton/index.html