Acton Trussell, Staffordshire Family History Guide
Acton Trussell is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1776 from Berkswich with Walton Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Acton Trussell and Bednall, Acton Trussell with Bednall
Parish church: St. James
Parish registers begin: 1571
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ACTON-TRUSSELL and BEDNALL, a township chapelry in Baswick parish, Stafford; on the river Trent and the Stafford canal, near Cannock Chase, and near the Northwestern railway, 3 miles N of Penkridge. It has a post office, of the name of Bednall, under Stafford. Acres, 2,547. Real property, £4,782. Pop., 617. Houses, 123. The property is divided among four proprietors. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £234. Patrons, Hulme’s Trustees. The church is in disrepair.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ACTON-TRUSSELL, a parochial chapelry, in the parish of Baswick, union of Penkridge, E. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, S. division of the county of Stafford, 3½ miles (N. N. E.) from Penkridge; containing, with Bednall, 574 inhabitants.
The township of Acton and Bednall comprises 2551 acres, of which 1400 are arable, and the remainder grass, with a few acres of plantation; the soil is a good gravelly loam. Acton lies west of Bednall, adjoining the river Penk and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal.
The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Bednall united; net income, £234; patrons, the Trustees of William Hulme. The glebe-house was built in 1842 by the Rev. Matthew Davies, the incumbent; it commands extensive and beautiful views: the glebe consists of 32 acres.
The chapel of Acton, dedicated to St. James, is an ancient edifice in the early English style, with a square tower:
Bednall chapel, dedicated to All Saints, was rebuilt in 1844, and consecrated in July 1846; it is a neat structure with a bell-turret.
There is a national school.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Acton-Trussell (St. James), a parochial chapelry, in the union of Penkridge, E. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, S division of the county of Stafford, 3 ½ miles (N.N.E.) from Penkridge; containing, with Bednall, 574 inhabitants. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal passes through the chapelry, which comprises 2551 acres.
The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Bednall united; net income, £234; patron and incumbent, Rev. G. F. Molineaux; appropriator, Prebendary of Whittington and Baswick in the Cathedral of Lichfield. There are churches at Acton and Bednall, both ancient edifices, the former in the early English style, and the latter of varied architecture.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840
ACTON-TRUSSELL, a township and parochial chapelry in the parish of Baswick, county of Stafford; 3 miles north-north-east from Penkridge.
Living, a perpetual curacy with that of Bednall united, and a peculiar of the dean of Lichfield; of the certified value of £14, and valued in the parliamentary return at £95; gross income £247. Patron, in 1835, G. Molineux, Esq.
The Stafford and Worcestershire canal and river Trent pass through this township. Pop., in 1801, 291; in 1831, with the township of Bednall, 551. Houses 108. Acres 1,400. A. P. £2,698. Poor rates, in 1837, £155.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.
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Online School Records
School records are a primary source for genealogists. The two types of records that are commonly available are admission registers and log books.
The admission registers of schools may be available from the 1870s, but more frequently from 1902. Usually shown under the date of entry, is the child’s name and address and his or her date of birth. Some registers, but not all, may also show the name and occupation of the parent or guardian, the name of the previous school attended and the reason for leaving.
For immigrant children the name of the previous school may uniquely provide the pupil’s exact place of origin.
These admission registers may enable the brothers and sisters of a pupil to be identified in a way that, with frequent names, would be difficult if not impossible from the civil registration records.
The log book may contain comments on the attendance of pupils, behaviour, discipline, the curriculum, attendance of teachers and absence for sickness etc., and the effect of epidemics and seasonal work on attendance. The names of individual pupils only occasionally appear in log books. The names and status of the teachers were recorded at the annual inspection, with a summary of the inspector’s report.
The following school records are available from Findmypast
Acton Trussell & Bednall Mixed & Infant School 1895 to 1913 Admissions
Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Penkridge
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Whittington and Baswich
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Penkridge
- Poor Law Union: Penkridge
- Hundred: East Cuttlestone
- Province: Canterbury