Presteigne with Discoed, Herefordshire Genealogy

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

'''Part of this parish is in Radnorshire, Wales. See also Presteigne with Discoed, Radnorshire.'''

Parish History
Presteigne, market town and township with ry. sta., Radnorshire, and parish, partly also in Herefordshire - parish. Town, on river Lugg, 6½ miles NE. of New Radnor. Presteigne is an ancient town, and was a borough by prescription. It has a town hall, a shire hall (1829), and an endowed grammar school founded in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Presteigne formed one of the Radnor District of Parliamentary Boroughs.

Presteigne St Andrew with Discoed is an Ancient Parish historically in the county of Herefordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Lower Kinsham, Nash, Lower Hampton, Litton and Cascob, Little Brampton, Willey, Combe, Rodd, Rodd, Nash and Little Brampton, Stapleton, and Discoed.

See also Presteigne Wikipedia and St Andrew church information.

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

This parish was withinPresteigne registration district

Church Records
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Church of England
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Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

Census Records
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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
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