Newchapel Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Newchapel is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1715 from Wolstanton Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Wolstanton St James New Chapel, New Chapel, Thursfield, Wolstanton St James

Other places in the parish include: Chell and Ravenscliffe.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1723
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1726

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THURSFIELD, or Newchapel, a chapelry in Wolstanton parish, Stafford; 1½ mile E by N of Kidsgrove-Junction r. station, and 3 N of Burslem.

It was constituted in 1846; it extends much beyond T. proper, or T. township; and it has a post-office, of the name of Newchapel, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop., 3,440. Houses, 630.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £110. Patrons, R. Sneyd, Esq., and others. The church was built in 1767, and repaired in 1827.

There is a national school.

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, Newchapel

England, Staffordshire, Thursfield – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Newchapel, 1726-1856
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Newchapel (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Newchapel, parish registers : St. James

England, Staffordshire, Thursfield, parish registers : St. James

Parish registers for Newchapel, 1741-1876
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Newchapel (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Thursfield – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Newchapel, Stafford, England ; christenings, 1814-1856
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Newchapel, Stafford, England; chrs., 1726-1809
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department; Church of England. Chapelry of Newchapel (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Thursfield – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments, Stoke-upon-Trent, Sugnall Magna, Sugnall Parva, Swinnerton, Talke, Three Farms, Thursfield and Trentham : Staffordshire, England, 1781-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Staffordshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

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