Bolstone, Herefordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BOLSTONE, a parish, is in the Upper division of the hundred of Wormelow, and in the union and county of Hereford, 6 miles South Southeast from Hereford.

Bolstone was sometimes spelled Boulstone, and refers to Ballingham and Bolstone, Herefordshire, an ancient Parish.

Bolstone is a settlement within the Ancient Parish of Ballingham, Herefordshire.

The Parish Church of St John of Jerusalem dates from the 12th century and was restored in 1877 by W.E. Martin; it has been designated as a grade II listed building

The united benefice of Ballingham with Bolstone now serves the needs of the villages; historical directory and gazetteer entries describe Bolstone as a chapelry annexed to the rectory of Ballingham St Dubricius.

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
Bolstone parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

The Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre houses many parish registers. See The records we hold for a list of records available there. How to contact them:
 * Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre Fir Tree Lane Rotherwas Hereford HR2 6LA Telephone: +44 (0)1432 260750 Email: [mailto:archives@herefordshire.gov.uk archives@herefordshire.gov.uk] Website: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Census Records
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition, FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through the FHC Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that genenerally charge for subscriptions.

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 Jurisdictions, Parishes A-B 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
Bolstone

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