Chesterton Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Chesterton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1846 from Audley Ancient Parish and Wolstanton Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1846

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

CHESTERTON, a township in Wolstanton parish, and a chapelry in Wolstanton and Audley parishes, Stafford. The township lies adjacent to the North Stafford railway and the Grand Trunk canal, 2 miles WNW of Burslem; and has a post-office under Stoke-upon-Trent.

Real property, £5,506; of which £1,000 are in mines. Pop., 2,459. Houses, 500. The property is much subdivided.

A castle stood here before the Conquest; but has disappeared.

The chapelry consists of the township, with part of Audley parish; and was constituted in 1846. Pop., 4,067. Houses, 847.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is recent, in the early English style, with handsome tower and spire.

There are chapels for Wesleyans and other Methodists.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Marriage Allegations

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

WHITNEY, James, of Bloomsbury, co. Middlesex, earthen-ware seller, 21, b., &
Sarah Garside, of Chestertonhay, co. Stafford, 21, sp., at Portsea, 6 Oct., 1801. James Whitney, senr., of Bloomsbury, and the same calling, bondsman.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Chesterton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of Holy Trinity Church, Chesterton
Author: Carter, Robert Edward; Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry

England, Staffordshire, Chesterton – Church records ( 2 )
England, Staffordshire, Chesterton, parish registers, 1878-1892
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Chesterton (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Chesterton, 1846-1907
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Chesterton (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Chesterton – Newspapers – Indexes ( 1 )
Index to the Staffordshire Advertiser 1840-1919 : for the parish of Audley and the surrounding villages of Alsager, Barthomley, Betley (from 1850), Butt Lane, Chesterton, Knutton, Leycett, Silverdale and Talke
Author: Bailey, Ian

Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Newcastle under Lyme; Wolstanton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Newcastle under Lyme
  • Poor Law Union: Wolstanton and Burslem
  • Hundred: North Pirehill
  • Province: Canterbury