Cradley, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire



Parish History
Cradley St James the Great is an Ancient Parish and is the largest parish in Herefordshire; it includes Storridge. Cradley Storridge St John the Evangelist was formed as a chapelry from this parish

The church dates from the late 12th century and was substantially rebuilt in 1868-1869 and has been designated a grade B listed building by English Heritage British listed building

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cradley like this:

CRADLEY (East and West), a parish in Bromyard district, Hereford; under the Malvern hills, at the boundary with Worcester, 3 miles N of Colwall r. station, and 7 ¾ SE of Bromyard. It has a post office, of the name of Cradley, under Malvern. Acres, 5, 966. Real property, £8, 858. Pop., 1,830. Houses, 418. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; and has under it the chapelry of St. John the Evangelist, a vicarage and a separate charge. Value of the rectory, £957;* of the vicarage, £100. Patron of the rectory, the Bishop of Hereford; of the vicarage, the Rector. The parish church was restored in 1869; and the church of St. John is very good. A school has £20 from endowment; and other charities £24.

Cradley Wikipedia

Cradley Storridge St John the Evangelist dates from 1856 and was built by Frederick Preedy of Worcester and has been designated a grade C listed building by English Heritage British listed building

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.

Church records
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Herefordshire Census

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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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