Penkhull Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Penkhull is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Stoke upon Trent Ancient Parish. 

Other places in the parish include: Boothen, Stoke Road, Penkhall, Hartshill, and Basford. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1843
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, and Society of Friends/Quaker.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

PENKHULL, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford. The village stands 1¼ mile WSW of Stoke-upon-Trent r. station.

The township includes the village, and shares largely in the prosperity of the Potteries. Real property, £235,609; of which £108,956 are in railways, £69,705 in canals, and £20 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 9,207; in 1861, 10,865. Houses, 2,135. The Stoke workhouse is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 391 inmates.

The chapelry includes but a portion of the township, and was constituted in 1844. Post-town, Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop. in 1861, 2,110. Houses, 365. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £151. Patron, the Rev. T. W. Minton. The church is good; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

The new North Stafford infirmary is here; and was built in 1866-8, at a cost of £33,000.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Penkhull – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of St. Thomas’s Church, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Author: Beech, H. Eva (Helen Eva Shaw), b. 1920; Harris, Pauline; Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry; Church of England. Chapelry of Penkhull (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Penkhull – Church records ( 3 )
Births and baptisms, 1832-1837
Author: Primitive Methodist Church (Penkhull, Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Penkhull, parish registers, 1844-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Penkhull (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Penkhull, 1843-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Penkhull (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Penkhull – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Penkhull, Stafford, England (Primitive Methodist Church) ; christenings, 1832-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Staffordshire, Penkhull – History ( 1 )
The township of Penkhull cum Bothen
Author: Nicholls, Robert

England, Staffordshire, Penkhull – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments, Penkhull, Pershull and Podmore, 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: 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