Northwood, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
NORTHWOOD, an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford; immediately adjoining the town of Hanley. The Methodists of the New Connexion have a place of worship.

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
Northwood Holy Trinity formed 1845 from part of Hanley, Staffordshire St John EP

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1848-1961 Mar 1849-1987 Bur 1849-1867 Lichfield Record Office 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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