Ingestre Staffordshire Family History Guide
Ingestre is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.
Alternative names: Ingestrie
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1691
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1676
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
INGESTRE, a parish in the district and county of Stafford; on the river Trent, the Grand Trunk canal, and the Trent Valley railway, 3 miles SW of Weston r. station, and 4 E by N of Stafford. Post town, Stafford. Acres, 868. Real property, £2,566. Pop., 151. Houses, 26.
The manor belonged to the De Multons; passed, in the time of Edward III., to the Chetwynds; belongs now to the Earl of Shrewsbury; and gives him the title of Viscount. Ingestre Hall is the manorial mansion, dates from the Tudor times, and has been entirely restored.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £525. Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church was rebuilt in 1676, and contains monuments of the Chetwynds and the Talbots.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Stafford
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Stafford
- Poor Law Union: Stafford
- Hundred: South Pirehill
- Province: Canterbury