Etruria Staffordshire Family History Guide
Etruria is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Shelton Ecclesiastical Parish.
Alternative names: Trury
Parish registers begin: 1847
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist, New Connexion Methodists, and Unitarians
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Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Etruria (popularly Trury), a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Staffordshire. The village stands on the North Staffordshire railway, and on the Grand Trunk Canal, 1 mile W of Hanley, 1¼ NW of Stoke-upon-Trent, and 2 SSE of Burslem, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O) under Stoke-upon-Trent.
It is included in the municipal and parliamentary borough of Hanley. It was founded and named by Josiah Wedgwood, was the scene of many of those inventions and improvements by which he carried the manufacture of pottery to a state of high excellence, and was the place of his death, at Etruria Hall, in 1795. His potteries are still carried on by his descendants. There are extensive ironworks.
The ecclesiastical parish includes the village, and was constituted in 1847. Population, 5397. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £227 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is a good stone edifice, and there are Wesleyan, New Connexion, and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ETRURIA, popularly Trury, a village and a chapelry in Shelton township, Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford. The village stands on the North Stafford railway, and on the Grand Trunk canal, 1 mile SSE of Burslem; and has a station on the railway, a post office under Stoke-upon-Trent, and a chief inn.
It was founded and named by Josiah Wedgewood; was the scene of many of those inventions and improvements by which he carried the manufacture of pottery to a state of high excellence; and was the place of his death, at Etruria Hall, in 1795. Gas-works here, established in 1820, at a cost of £35,000, supply great part of the pottery district.
The chapelry includes the village, and was constituted in 1844. Pop., 2,922. Houses, 603. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is a good edifice in the Saxon style; and there are chapels for Wesleyans, New Connexion Methodists, and Unitarians.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Stoke upon Trent
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Stoke upon Trent
- Poor Law Union: Stoke on Trent
- Hundred: North Pirehill
- Province: Canterbury