Onecote Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Onecote is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1783 from a chapelry in Leek Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Bradnop.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1755
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1782

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist. 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ONECOTE, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Leek parish, Stafford. The village stands on the river Hamps, 4¾ miles E by S of Leek r. station. The township includes the village, and extends into the country. Real property, £4, 958. Pop., 463. Houses, 90. The chapelry contains also the township of Bradnop; and its post town is Leek. Real property, £9, 471. Pop., 917. Houses, 175. The property is all in one estate.

Narrowdale here is a rocky vale so deep that sunshine does not reach its bottom even at midsummer. The Mixon copper mine is here; but ceased about 1820 to be worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Leek. The church is good, and has a tower. Charities, £11.

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

Parish Records

Online School Records

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Onecote Board School 1873 to 1905 Admissions

Onecote Council School 1905 to 1911 Admissions

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Onecote – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Onecote, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Staffordshire, Onecote – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Onecote, 1782-1834
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Onecote (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Onecote, parish registers : St. Luke, 1813-1901
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Onecote (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Onecote, 1755-1885
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Onecote (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Onecote – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax returns for Onecote, 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: Leek
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Leek
  • Poor Law Union: Leek
  • Hundred: North Totmonslow
  • Province: Canterbury