Knockin, Shropshire Genealogy

England   Shropshire  Shropshire Parishes

Parish History
In 1884- KNOCKIN (St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Oswestry, N. division of Shropshire, 5¾ miles (S. S. E.) from Oswestry; containing, an extra-parochial farm called Heath.

The parish of Knockin (Welsh: Cnwcyn) originally formed part of the Welsh Diocese of St Asaph. However, following the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Wales in 1920, the parish was transferred to the English Diocese of Lichfield.

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
Knockin parish registers 1661 to 1812 at Internet Archive - free.

Bishop's transcripts held at Lichfield Record Office Bap 1673-1846 Marr 1673-1833 Bur 1673-1846

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Shropshire 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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