Aymestrey, Herefordshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Aymestry is a village and civil parish in north west Herefordshire Aymestry Wikipedia

Aymestry is an Ancient parish which includes Conhope, Covenhope, Mortimer's Cross, Yatton, Over Lye, Shirley, and Nether Lye within the parish boundary see parish boundary map A church near You From this parish the ecclesiastical parish of Leinthall Earles, Herefordshire was formed in 1756 from an inital chapelry of Aymestry Ancient Parish.

The Parish church of St John the Baptist and St Alkmund has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

A history of the church is found at Aymestrey Community website

An illustrated architectural history is available from Kings Colege, London Corpus of Romanesque architecture website

See also Herefordshire Churches

AYMESTREY, a parish partly in the hundred of STRETFORD, but chiefly in the hundred of WIGMORE, county of HEREFORD.

Lewis, Samuel A. ''Taken from the FHL Book Call # 942 E5L 1831 pg. 76''

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

Poor Law Unions
Leominster 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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