Rushton, Staffordshire Genealogy

Parish History
Rushton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1726 from chapelry in Leek, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Heaton, Rushton Spencer, and Rushton James.

RUSHTON-SPENCER, a township and chapelry, in the parish and union of Leek, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (N. W. by N.) from Leek; the township containing 350 inhabitants, several of whom are engaged in the spinning of cotton. The living is a perpetual curacy; income, £91; patron, the Vicar of Leek. The chapel, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is a small stone building.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 717-719. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51250 Date accessed: 30 March 2011.

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
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Leek 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
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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