Hanford Staffordshire Family History Guide

Hanford is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1828 from Trentham Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1828
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1828

Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HANFORD, a township and a chapelry in Trentham parish, Stafford. The township lies near the Grand Trunk canal and the Northwestern railway, 2½ miles S of Stoke-on-Trent; and has a post office under Stoke-on-Trent. Real property, £1,963. Pop., 832. Houses, 187. The property is divided among a few. Hanford Hall belongs to the Duke of Sutherland.

The chapelry was constituted in 1831; and is rather larger than the township. Pop., 857. Houses, 191. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £140. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church was built in 1827, and enlarged and improved in 1862.

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

Parish Records

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England, Staffordshire, Handford

England, Staffordshire, Hanford – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of St. Matthias Church, Hanford
Author: Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry. North Staffordshire Branch; Salt, David

England, Staffordshire, Hanford – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Hanford, 1828-1858
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hanford (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Hanford, parish registers : St. Matthias, 1828-1921
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hanford (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

England, Staffordshire, Hanford – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Handford, Stafford, England ; christenings, 1828-1858
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Staffordshire, Hanford – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments, Knutton, Hanford, Clayton Griffith, Longton and Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1781-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Staffordshire)

Maps

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Administration

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