Norton Canes Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Norton Canes is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.

Alternative names: Norton Caines, Norton under Cannock

Other places in the parish include: Little Wyrley and Brownhills.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1566
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1659

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NORTON-UNDER-CANNOCK, or Norton-Canes, a village and a parish in Penkridge district, Stafford. The village stands adjacent to Watling-street, near the S side of Cannock Chase, 1¾ mile E by S of Wyrley r. station, 2¼ NW of the Wyrley and Essington canal, 2¾ WNW of Brownhills r. station, and 5¾ N of Walsall, and has a post-office under Stafford.

The parish contains also the hamlets of Little Wyrley and Brownhills. Acres, 4,077. Real property, £17,599; of which £10,000 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 968; in 1861, 1,628. Houses, 290. The increase of pop. rose from the extension of mining operations. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to W. Hanbury and P. F. Hussey, Esqs. Norton Hall and Wyrley Grove are chief residences; and the former belonged to the Bishops of Chester, and passed to the Aston family. Coal and ironstone abound; and the coal is extensively worked around Brownhills.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £330. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was rebuilt and enlarged in 1832, at a cost of £1,220; has a pinnacled tower; and contains an ancient font. A section of the parish, containing a pop. of 783 in 1861, is within the chapelry of Ogley-Hay, constituted in 1854. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, an endowed school with £39 a year, and charities £16.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Use for:
England, Staffordshire, Norton-Canes

England, Staffordshire, Norton-under-Cannock – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Norton-Canes, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Staffordshire, Norton-under-Cannock – Church records ( 5 )
Baptismal registers, 1862-1969
Author: Trinity Primitive Methodist Church (Norton Canes, Staffordshire)

Baptismal registers, 1881-1969
Author: Norton East Primitive Methodist Church (Staffordshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Norton-under-Cannock, 1659-1859
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Norton-under-Cannock (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Norton-under-Cannock, parish registers : St. James
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Norton-under-Cannock (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Norton-under-Cannock, 1566-1887
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Norton-under-Cannock (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Norton-under-Cannock – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Norton-Canes, Stafford, England ; christenings, 1753-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Norton-under-Cannock, Stafford, England ; christenings, 1813-1859
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Staffordshire, Norton-under-Cannock – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
Overseer accounts for Norton-under-Cannock, 1781-1817
Author: Norton-under-Cannock (Staffordshire, England)

Poor rate books, 1853-1900
Author: Norton-under-Cannock (Staffordshire, England)

England, Staffordshire, Norton-under-Cannock – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments, Norton and Wyrley, Packington, Staffordshire, England, 1772-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Staffordshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Penkridge
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Hansacre and Armitage
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Rugeley
  • Poor Law Union: Penkridge
  • Hundred: South Offlow
  • Province: Canterbury