Hixon is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1848 from Colwich Ancient Parish and Stowe Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1848
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HIXON, a chapelry in Colwich and Stowe parishes, Staffordshire; on the Macclesfield and Colwich railway, adjacent to the river Trent, 6½ miles ESE of Stafford. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stafford; and it was constituted in 1848. Pop., 710. Houses, 174. Pop. of the Stowe portion, 620. Houses, 150. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is modern.


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England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991

England Marriages, 1538–1973 

England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008

England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007

England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005



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Migration and Naturalisation Records

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Newspaper Archives

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Census Records

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England and Wales Census, 1851

England and Wales Census, 1861

England and Wales Census, 1871

England and Wales Census, 1881

England and Wales Census, 1891

England and Wales Census, 1901

England and Wales National Register, 1939

Probate and Court Records


Military Records

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United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941

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County: Staffordshire
Civil Registration District: Stafford
Diocese: Lichfield
Rural Deanery: Rugeley
Poor Law Union: Stafford
Hundred: South Pirehill
Province: Canterbury