Penkhull, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Penkhull St Thomas is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Stoke upon Trent Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Basford, Stoke Road, Penkhall, and Hartshill.

The church was designed by George Gilbert Scott

PENKHULL, a township, in the parish and union of Stoke-upon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford; containing 7947 inhabitants. This township includes the whole town of Stoke, with the exception of a small portion, which is in Fenton-Vivian; it includes also the villages or hamlets of Basford, Trent-Vale, and Hartshill, with numerous handsome mansions and villas. The large village of Penkhull covers the heights above the town, and appears to be one of the oldest seats of the earthenware manufacture in the neighbourhood, as, so early as 1600, it had three coarse brown-ware potteries. In the township are, a good stone-quarry, large earthenware and china manufactories, and several brick and tile yards. A district church, dedicated to St. Thomas, was built in 1842; it is a cruciform structure in the early English style, with a spire, and contains 450 sittings. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Rev. T. W. Minton, M.A., by whom it has been endowed with £1000.—

From: 'Penalth - Pennington', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 545-549. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51208 Date accessed: 01 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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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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