Sources for Family Historians at Stoke on Trent City Archives

Anglican Parish Registers

Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials for parishes wholly or partly within the City, 1536 to c.1925, on microfiche.

Transcripts of registers of baptisms, marriages and burials for most Staffordshire parishes, 1536-1812, on hard copy.

Bishops Transcripts

Bishops transcripts for some Staffordshire parishes on microfiche, 1551-1812.

Methodist Registers

Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials for many Methodist chapels within the City, 1797-1976. Handlist available (£4.50 plus 59p (UK) or £1.00 (overseas) postage and packing). Pre-1925 registers available on microfiche only.

Birth and baptism registers for Stoke on Trent area only, 1786-1837, on microfilm.

General Register Office Indexes

Indexes to births, marriages and deaths only for England and Wales on microfiche, 1837-1960.

International Genealogical Index

IGI for England and Wales on microfiche.

Census returns

Census returns for North Staffordshire north of, but not including, Eccleshall, Stone and Uttoxeter, 1841-1901, on microfiche.

1881 Census Indexes for Staffordshire on microfiche and Great Britain on CD-rom.

1851 Census Indexes for part of the City on hard copy.

1871 Census Surname Indexes for North Staffordshire on hard copy

Electoral Registers

Stoke upon Trent (towns of Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton, Longton) 1857-1863 on microfilm

Stoke upon Trent (towns of Stoke, Longton and Fenton) 1911-1915 on microfilm
City of Stoke on Trent from 1918-date
Hanley (towns of Hanley and Burslem) 1885-1915 on microfilm
Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1958, and a few earlier ones.
Biddulph, 1958-1985.
Cheadle, 1979-1985.
Leek, 1963-1985
Staffordshire Moorlands from 1985 (including Biddulph, Cheadle and Leek).
Stafford and Stone, later Stafford, from 1963.

Poll Books

Lists of men eligible to vote in local parliamentary elections, for Stoke upon Trent, 1807, 1859, 1862 and 1865; and for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1807 and 1837.

Rate Books

Owners and occupiers of individual properties in street order. Hanley 1862-1916 (incomplete); Stoke upon Trent 1878-1922; Longton 1913 and 1915; Fenton 1915; Burslem 1911 and 1914-1916; Shelton 1907-1910 and 1915.

City of Stoke on Trent valuation list, 1934 with additions and alterations to 1956, complete

Poor Law Records

Westcliffe Institution, Turnhurst Road, Chell (Wolstanton and Burslem Union Workhouse): registers of births, baptisms and deaths, 1840-1959; registers of inmates, 1887-1948.

Cemetery Records on CD-ROM

Records of several cemeteries in Staffordshire from 19th to 20th centuries. Please see Latest News for up to date details of what is available.

Divorce Indexes on CD-ROM

The indexes are to petitions for divorce submitted to the following courts :

Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Cases, 1858-1873
Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1873-1958
District registries of the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1922-1958Trade Directories

A collection of trade directories for both Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire, 1783-1940.

Newspapers

Staffordshire Sentinel, later Evening Sentinel, now Sentinel, from 1854, on microfilm.

Staffordshire Advertiser, 1795-1973, on microfilm.

Indexes to births, marriages and deaths in the Staffordshire Advertiser, 1795-1840, on hard copy.

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