Trentham Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Trentham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Clayton, Trentham with Blurton, Hanchurch, Dresden, and Clayton Griffith.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1670

Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TRENTHAM, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Stone district, Stafford. The village stands on the river Trent, 1½ mile W of the North Staffordshire railway, and 3 SSW of Stoke-upon-Trent; is a seat of petty-sessions; gives the title of Viscount to the Duke of Sutherland; and has a post-office under Stoke-upon-Trent, a r. station, and a police station.

The township includes the village, and extends into the country. Real property, £5,471. Pop., 645. Houses, 127.

The parish includes five other townships, and comprises 6,900 acres. Pop. in 1851, 2,747; in 1861, 4,611. Houses, 958.

T. Park is the seat of the Duke of Sutherland; was altered by Barry into a splendid pile, with rich architectural decorations in the Italian style; has finely-wooded grounds, laid out by Brown, and containing a lake and a mausoleum; and was visited in 1805 by George III., in 1832, by the Princess Victoria, in 1868, by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

A nunnery was founded at T., before 683, by one of the Saxon kings; and an Augustinian priory superseded it, in the time o Henry I.; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Brandons.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £100. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church was rebuilt in 1842.

The p. curacy of Butterton is a separate benefice.

There are an endowed school with £20 a year, and charities £61.

The sub-district includes also another parish and a liberty. Pop., 6,259. Houses, 1,273.

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

Staffordshire DRESDEN Belgrave Road
Staffordshire DRESDEN Belgrave Road

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Trentham – Buildings, dwellings, etc. ( 1 )
The first Trentham Hall
Author: Wisker, Richard

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

England, Staffordshire, Trentham – Church records ( 9 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Blurton and Lightwood-Forest, 1814-1838
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Blurton and Lightwood-Forest (Staffordshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Hanford, 1828-1858
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hanford (Staffordshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Trentham, 1670-1852
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Trentham (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Hanford, parish registers : St. Matthias, 1828-1921
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hanford (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Dresden, 1853-1907
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Dresden (Staffordshire)

Parish registers for Silverdale, 1853-1912
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Silverdale (Staffordshire)

Parish registers for Trentham, 1558-1900
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Trentham (Staffordshire)

Trentham parish register
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Trentham (Staffordshire); Wrottesley, F. J. (Francis John), 1848-

Trentham parish register
Author: Hutchinson, S. W.; Church of England. Parish Church of Trentham (Staffordshire); Staffordshire Parish Registers Society

England, Staffordshire, Trentham – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printout of Trentham parish, Staffordshire, England (1558-1852)

England, Staffordshire, Trentham – 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)

Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stone
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Trentham
  • Poor Law Union: Stone
  • Hundred: North Pirehill
  • Province: Canterbury