Tixall, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Tixall St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish.

TIXALL (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union, and N. division of the county, of Stafford, 5 miles (W. by N.) from Rugeley; containing 209 inhabitants. It is situated between the once much frequented London and Liverpool, and London and Chester mail-roads; parallel to which, respectively, are the Trent-Valley railway and the North Staffordshire railway. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal passes through the parish for a considerable distance, and forms a junction with the Trent and Mersey canal within a mile of the village. The parish comprises about 2300 acres, in nearly equal portions of arable and pasture, with about 25 acres of plantation; the surface is undulated, the scenery very picturesque, and some of the prettiest in the vale of Trent. The whole is the property of Earl Talbot, who purchased it in 1844, together with 1700 acres in Colwich and Stowe parishes adjoining, of Sir T. A. Clifford Constable, Bart., for £240,000. Large quantities of freestone are quarried in the neighbourhood of Tixall Hall, and much of it has been used in the construction of the bridges and locks of the two canals, the stone being peculiarly adapted for resisting the action of water. The noble gatehouse in the park was erected in 1580. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £8. 0. 8.; net income, £200; patron, Earl Talbot: the tithes have been commuted for £190; and there is a parsonage-house, with about 40 acres of glebeland.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 366-369. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51347 Date accessed: 06 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Tixall St john the Baptist Ancient Parish

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1663-2002 Mar 1633-1836 Bur 1663-1812 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1663-1865 Mar 1663-1848 Bur1663-1864 missing bap/bur 1853-1855

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Poor Law Unions
Stafford Poor Law Union

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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