Onecote, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Onecote is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1783 from chapelry in Leek, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Bradnop.

ONECOTE, a township and a chapelry, in the parish and union of Leek, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Leek; containing 427 inhabitants. It comprises 4957 acres, nearly the whole of which is grassland. This township and that of Bradnop form the manor of Bradnop, of which William Sneyd, Esq., is lord. There are rich copper-mines at Mixen, and small portions of copper and lead are found imbedded among limestone in most of the hills in the neighbourhood. The village, which is scattered, lies on the road from Cheadle to Longnor. Within the chapelry is a deep valley surrounded by rocks, called Narrowdale, to the inhabitants of which the rays of the sun are invisible, during several months in the year. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £99; patron, the Vicar of Leek. The chapel is a small structure of stone.

From: 'Oldland - Openshaw', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 476-479. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51193 Date accessed: 30 March 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Poor Law Unions
Leek 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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