Stoke Bliss, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire  Herefordshire Parishes

For more information and records see Stoke Bliss, Worcestershire. 

Parish History
STOKE-BLISS, is a parish, in the union of Tenbury, partly in the Upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Worcester and W. divisions of the county of Worcester. Butchiefly in the hundred of Broxash, and the county of Hereford, 6 miles (S. E.) from Tenbury. It contains the chapelry of Little Kyre, in the Stoke-Bliss township. The parish is situated on the road from Tenbury to Bromyard. The church is in the early English style.

Stokes Bliss is an ancient parish partly in Herefordshire and partly in Worcestershire.

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.

Census records


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.

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