Burslem St Paul, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes

Parish History
BURSLEM (St. John the Baptist), a market-town and parish, forming, with Wolstanton, a poor law union, in the hundred of North Pirehill, N. division of the county of Stafford, 2½ miles (N. E.) from Newcastle, 19 (N.) from Stafford, and 151 (N. E.) from London. There are places of worship belonging to Baptists, Independents, Kilhamites, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists.

Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 445-448. Date accessed: 16 October 2012.

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
Burslem St Paul formed 1809 from part of Burslem, Staffordshire EP

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1831-1937 Mar 1845-1951 Bur 1831-1958 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1831-1869 Mar none Bur 1831-1869 missing 1859-1860, 1868

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
Wolstanton and Burslem 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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