Penn is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Lower Penn and Upper Penn.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1569
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1664
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
PENN, a village and a parish in Wolverhampton district, Stafford. The village stands 2½ miles WSW of Bilston r. station, and 2 SSW of Wolverhampton; and has a post-office under Wolverhampton.
The parish comprises the townships of Upper P. and Lower P. Acres, 3,986. Real property, £12,693. Pop. in 1851, 1,160; in 1861, 1,765. Houses, 356. The property is much subdivided. P. House belonged to the Bradneys, and passed to the Pershouses. The hardware manufacture is carried on.
A section of Upper P., containing a pop. of 852 in 1861, was constituted a chapelry, under the name of St. Philip, in 1859. The head living is a vicarage, and that of St. P. is a p. curacy, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value of the former, £226; of the latter, £90. Patron of the former, the Bishop of Lichfield; of the latter, the Rev. W. Dalton. The parish church is good. The church of St. P. was built in 1860, at a cost of £3,994; is in the style of the 14th century; and consists of nave, S aisle, transept, and chancel, with vestry and tower.
There are an endowed school with £115 a year, alms-houses with £39, and other charities £8.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Penn
England, Staffordshire, Penn – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Penn Fields, 1859-1888
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Penn Fields (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office
England, Staffordshire, Penn Fields, parish registers : St. Philip, 1859-1900
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Penn Fields (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office
England, Staffordshire, Penn, parish registers : St. Bartholomew, 1813-1900
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Penn (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office
Parish registers for Penn, 1570-1876
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Penn (Staffordshire)
Penn parish register
Author: Adams, Percy W. L. (Percy Walter Lewis), b. 1875; Church of England. Parish Church of Penn (Staffordshire)
Penn parish register
Author: Adams, Percy W. L. (Percy Walter Lewis), b. 1875; Church of England. Parish Church of Penn (Staffordshire)
England, Staffordshire, Penn – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Penn, Staffs., Eng.
England, Staffordshire, Penn – History ( 2 )
Investigating Penn : a brief history of a Staffordshire village now part of Wolverhampton
Author: Bennett, T. R. (Thomas Ronald)
Over and Nether Penn (and district)
Author: Dunphy, Angus
England, Staffordshire, Penn – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments, Penn (Lower), Penn (Upper), Rowley Regis (Lower) and Rowley Regis (Upper), Staffordshire, England, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Staffordshire)
Lower Penn
England, Staffordshire, Lower Penn – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Lower Penn, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Staffordshire, Lower Penn – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Upper Penn, 1659-1853
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Upper Penn (Staffordshire)
Upper Penn
England, Staffordshire, Upper Penn – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Upper Penn, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Staffordshire, Upper Penn – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Upper Penn, 1659-1853
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Upper Penn (Staffordshire)
England, Staffordshire, Upper Penn – Schools ( 1 )
Log book for Woodfield Avenue School, 1913-1925
Author: Woodfield Avenue School (Upper Penn, Staffordshire)
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Wolverhampton
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Trysull
- Poor Law Union: Seisdon
- Hundred: North Seisdon
- Province: Canterbury