Hope Staffordshire Family History Guide

Hope is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Shelton Ecclesiastical Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

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

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Etruria
• Penkhull
• Wolstanton
• Hanley
• Shelton
• Cobridge
• Wellington
• Northwood

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HOPE, a chapelry in Shelton township, Hanley borough, Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; near the Stoke station of the Northwestern railway, and forming part of the Potteries. It was constituted in 1845; and its post-town is Hanley, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop., 4,380. Houses, 871. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. 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, Hope – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Hope, 1848-1909
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hope (Staffordshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Staffordshire
• Civil Registration District: Stoke upon Trent
• Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield
• Diocese: Lichfield
• Rural Deanery: Stoke upon Trent
• Poor Law Union: Stoke on Trent
• Hundred: North Pirehill
• Province: Canterbury