Brown Edge Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Brown Edge is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Norton le Moors Ecclesiastical Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1845

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BROWN-EDGE, a chapelry in Norton-in-the-Moors parish, Stafford; near the Manchester and Birmingham railway, 3 miles N of Burslem. It was constituted in 1844. Post Town, Norton-in-the-Moors, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Rated property, £1,300. Pop., 670. Houses, 131. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £155. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Brown-Edge – Church records ( 2 )
England, Staffordshire, Brown-Edhe, parish registers : St. Anne, 1845-1901
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Brown-Edge (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Brown-Edge, 1845-1943
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Brown-Edge (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Brown-Edge – History ( 2 )
Brass bands in Brown Edge
Author: Pointon, Alan

Mid-nineteenth century Brown Edge
Author: Pointon, Alan

FamilySearch Historical Records

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Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Leek
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Leek
  • Poor Law Union: Leek
  • Hundred: North Pirehill
  • Province: Canterbury