Hixon Staffordshire Family History Guide

Hixon is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1848 from Colwich Ancient Parish and Stowe Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1848
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Colwich
• Ingestre
• Weston upon Trent
• Stowe

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HIXON, a chapelry in Colwich and Stowe parishes, Staffordshire; on the Macclesfield and Colwich railway, adjacent to the river Trent, 6½ miles ESE of Stafford. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stafford; and it was constituted in 1848. Pop., 710. Houses, 174. Pop. of the Stowe portion, 620. Houses, 150. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is modern.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Hixon – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Hixon, 1848-1868
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hixon (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Hixon parish registers : St. Peter, 1848-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hixon (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

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