Dunston, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Dunston is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1824 from chapelry in Penkridge, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

DUNSTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Penkridge, E. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, S. division of the county of Stafford, 2 miles (N. by E.) from Penkridge; containing 250 inhabitants. It is intersected by the Liverpool and Birmingham railway, and comprises by admeasurement 1357 acres, three-fourths of which are arable. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £67; patron and impropriator, Lord Hatherton, whose tithes have been commuted for £253; there is a glebe of 1½ acre. The chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, is supposed to have been built about a century ago.

From: 'Dunsfold - Dunwood', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 105-110. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50931 Date accessed: 22 March 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Penkridge 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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