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This month we have records from The Potteries provided by My History and the North Staffordshire Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry ( BMSGH), together worth £ 35.
This month we have two complete directories, a burial database from the North Staffordshire Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry and sample images from the city archives in Stoke- onTrent together worth £35.
Cope’s Staffordshire 1913
Cope’s Staffordshire Directory & Buyer’s Guide, 1913, is normally priced £10 from www.my- history.co.uk. The directory provides details of businesses throughout Staffordshire just before the First World War, with information arranged by business type within each town/ city. Stoke- on-Trent has its own section in the directory, which is sub- divided by the various townships.
Kelly’s Directory of Staffordshire 1888
Also from My History we have the vast Kelly’s Directory of Staffordshire from 1888, which usually costs £14.95. This not only covers the Potteries but all of historic Staffordshire and includes lists of residents, local traders and plenty of town information and social history.
Potteries burials
From the North Staffordshire Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry ( northstaffsfamilyhistory.co.uk) we have Longton St John (formerly Lane End) Burial transcripts 17641975. Normally available via the BMSGH shop ( bmsgh- shop. org.uk) as a £10 download, this is a 1,620-page PDF database.
Longton and Lane End were two townships which grew together to form the market town of Longton. Lane- End Church, or, as it was later called, St John’s, was founded in 1704 and demolished in 1979 due to mining subsidence. You can find images of the church by searching search. staffspasttrack.org.uk. The transcripts were originally handwritten in a collection of exercise books, and here are arranged in two sections of a searchable PDF – one by date, one alphabetical. Members have also recently completed a surname index to all municipal cemeteries within the Potteries ( bmsgh.org/burialsearch).
BMSGH North Staffordshire newsletter
Also from the BMSGH North Staffordshire Branch we have a PDF copy of the latest members’ newsletter. And branch chairman Bill Harrison also highly recommends visiting its Facebook group ( facebook.com/whgosspottery) which is dedicated to the little-known ceramic manufacturer WH Goss Pottery, which has undergone restoration.
Potteries archives
We also have sample documents and photographs from the Stoke- on-Trent City Archives.