Kinsham, Herefordshire Genealogy

Guide to Kinsham, Herefordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
KINSHAM, LOWER, a township, in the parish and poor-law union of Presteign, hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford.

KINSHAM, UPPER, a parish, in the union of Presteign, hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford, 3½ miles (E.) from Presteign.

Kinsham is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire and consist of Upper and Lower Kinsham, see Kinsham Wikipedia

The church of All Saints is a former estate church built in the grounds of Kinsham Court used by the Arkwright family as a shooting Lodge. It was here that the Rememberance hymn " O Valiant hearts" was written, see O Valiant Hearts Wikipedia

Kinsham All Saints is an Ancient Parish, part of the parish boundary forms part of the border with Wales with neighbouring Presteigne. A map of the parish boundary is found at A church near you

The parish is now part of the benefice of Presteigne with Discoed, Kinsham, Lingen &amp; Knill, with the Priest resident in Presteigne.

The Parish church of All Saints, Kinsham restored in the 19th century has been designated as a grade II* listed bulding British listed building

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

This parish was withinPresteigne registration district

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions
Kington Poor Law Union, Herefordshire

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Herefordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Kinsham