Penkridge, Staffordshire Family History Guide

Penkridge is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Staffordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Levedale, Longridge, Lyne-hill, Mitton, Otherton, Wolgarstoner, Pillaton, Rodbaston, Water Eaton, Whiston, Whiston and Bickford, and Penkridge with Levedale, Longridge, Lynehill, Mitton, Otherton, Penkridge, Pillaton, Rodbaston, Water Eaton, Whiston, Bickford and Wolgarston.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1575

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Plymouth Brethren, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Penkridge

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

PENKRIDGE, a small town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Staffordshire. The town stands on the river Penk, the Worcester and Stafford canal, and the Stour Valley railway, 2½ miles N of Watling-street, and 6 S of Stafford.

It dates from ancient times; contains some respectable houses; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling-place; had formerly a weekly market; and has now a post-office under Stafford, a railway station, a banking office, and fairs on 30 April, 2 Sept., and 10 Oct. The township includes the town. Pop. in 1851, 2,663; in 1861, 2,510. Houses, 539.

The parish contains also the townships of Coppenhall and Dunston, and the chapelry of Stretton. Acres, 19,605. Rated property, £20,080. Pop. in 1851, 3,316; in 1861, 3,146. Houses, 669. The property is not much divided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £280. Patron, Lord Hatherton. The church is later English, in good condition; was made collegiate by King John, for 13 prebendaries; and was given to the Archbishop of Dublin.

The p. curacies of Coppenhall, Dunston, and Stretton are separate benefices. There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Plymouth Brethren, an endowed school with £36 a year, and charities £16.

The sub-district excludes Stretton chapelry, and includes Church-Eaton parish, Kinvaston, and Acton-Trussell-with-Bednell townships, and Teddesley-Hay extra-parochial tract. Acres, 27,434. Pop., 4,260. Houses, 905.

The district comprehends also the sub-district of Brewood, containing the parishes of Brewood and Lapley, the chapelry of Stretton, the township of Featherston, and part of the parish of Bushbury; and the sub-district of Cannock, containing the parishes of Cannock, Shareshill, Cheslyn-Hay, and Norton-under-Cannock, and the townships of Hilton, Hatherton, and Essington.

Acres of the district, 70,799. Poor-rates in 1863, £6,286. Pop. in 1851, 16,850; in 1861, 18,662. Houses, 3,756. Marriages in 1863, 107; births, 681, of which 39 were illegitimate; deaths, 385, of which 148 were at ages under 5 years, and 6 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,113; births, 5,626; deaths, 3,543.

The places of worship, in 1851, were 19 of the Church of England, with 6,654 sittings; 6 of Independents, with 1,180 s.; 7 of Wesleyans, with 899 s.; 2 of New Connexion Methodists, with 343 s.; 7 of Primitive Methodists, with 385 s.; 1 of Brethren, with 40s.; 1 undefined, with 120 s.; and 2 of Roman Catholics, with 430 s. The schools were 15 public day-schools, with 1,071 scholars; 33 private day-schools, with 568 s.; 32 Sunday schools, with 2,175 s.; and 1 evening school for adults, with 20 s.

The workhouse is in Brewood; and, at the census of 1861, had 86 inmates.

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

Levedale

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Levedale, a hamlet in Penkridge parish, Staffordshire, 2 miles NW of Penkridge.

Source: Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales; Brabner, John Henry Fryden; Volume: 4; William Mackenzie, London. 1895.

Pillaton

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Pillaton, a liberty in Penkridge township and parish, Stafford; 1 mile ESE of Penkridge.

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

Rodbaston

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Rodbaston, incl. in Penkridge par.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

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Administration

County: Staffordshire
Civil Registration District: Penkridge
Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Penkridge
Diocese: Lichfield
Rural Deanery: Penkridge
Poor Law Union: Penkridge
Hundred: East Cuttlestone
Province: Canterbury