Edensor, Staffordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
EDENSOR, a chapelry in Stoke-up-Trent parish, Stafford; on the North Stafford railway, adjacent to Longton station, 2¾ miles SSE of Stoke-upon-Trent. It comprises part of Lane-End and Longton townships; and was constituted in 1846.

Edensor is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1846 from Longton, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.Other places in the parish include: Lane End.

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.

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

Now called Longton Hall, originally formed as Edensor St Paul from part of Longton, Staffordshire St James EP Deposited parish records at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1849-1963 Mar 1863-1998 Bur 1854-1940 There are no holdings of Biship's Transcripts at Lichfield Record Office.

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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