Blurton, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
Blurton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1721 from chapelry in Trentham,_Staffordshire Ancient Parish.

BLURTON, a parish, in the union of Stone, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Newcastleunder-Lyme; containing 876 inhabitants. This place was till lately a chapelry in the parish of Trentham, but is now a distinct parish, under the 58th of George III., cap. 45. Within its limits are the inclosed district of Lightwood Forest, and the hamlets of Cocknidge, CowRidding, and Spratslade. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £189; patron and impropriator, the Duke of Sutherland. The royal arms in the church are among the few in the country that survived the great rebellion, being of the date of 1629.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 286-290. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50809 Date accessed: 04 May 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Stone 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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