Norton le Moors, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire  Staffordshire Parishes



Parish History
Norton le Moors is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1779 from chapelry in Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Bemersley, Bermersley, Ford Green, Milton, Whitfield, Smallthorn, Smallthorne, Ville, Whitefields Ville, and Norton Green.

NORTON-ON-THE-MOORS (St. Bartholomew),a parish, in the union of Leek, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (N. E.) from Newcastle-under-Lyme; comprising the townships of Bemersley and Norton, and the hamlets of Baddeley-Green, Ball-Green, Brown-Edge, Ford-Green, Milton, Norton-Green, Smallthorn, and Whitfield Ville.

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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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.

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