Etruria, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire Staffordshire Parishes

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

Parish History
ETRURIA, a village, in the parish of Shelton, borough and union of Stoke-upon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 1½ mile (N. E.) from Newcastle. There are places of worship for Wesleyans, and Methodists of the New Connexion.

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
Etruria St Matthew was formed in 1844 from part of Shelton, Staffordshire EP and closed circa 1976

Deposited Parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1947-1975 Mar 1849-1976 Bur 1949-1908 Lichfield Record Office has Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1847-1858 Mar 1856-1857 Bur 1849-1858

Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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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