Haywood, Herefordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
HAYWOOD-FOREST, an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of Webtree, county of Hereford, 2½ miles (S. S. W.) from Hereford; containing 123 inhabitants. The district comprises 711 acres, and is intersected by the Hereford and Grosmont railway.

HAYWOOD-TOWNSHIP, an extra-parochial liberty, in the Upper division of the hundred of Wormelow, county of Hereford. It comprises 780 acres of land, intersected by the Hereford and Grosmont railway; and on the north-west is connected with Haywood-Forest.

Haywood is a civil parish in Herefordshire with no substantial settlements and is south west of Hereford.

Haywood is an extra parochial place in Herefordshire which neighbours Clehonger, Herefordshire Hereford St John the Baptist, Herefordshire Upper and Lower Bullinghope with Grafton, Herefordshire Callow, Herefordshire Dewsall, Herefordshire Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire and Allensmore, Herefordshire

See also the Haywood Forest entry in the National Gazetteer 1868 transcribed by Colin Hinson

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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.

Church Records
Haywood is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Dewsall.
 * Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
 * The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

Census Records
Census returns for Haywood 1841-1891

Poor Law Unions
Hereford 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
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Haywood/index.html