Northwood Staffordshire Family History Guide

Northwood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Hanley Ecclesiastical Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

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

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist, New Connexion

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NORTHWOOD, a village and a chapelry in Hanley township, Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford. The village is suburban to Hanley town; and shares in that town’s connexion with the potteries, in its general trade, and in its railway facilities. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Post-town, Hanley, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop. in 1861, 6,099. Houses, 1,208. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. There are national schools.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Northwood – Church records ( 2 )
England, Staffordshire, Northwood, parish registers : Holy Trinity, 1850-1860
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Northwood (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Northwood, 1848-1906
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Northwood (Staffordshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

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