Edvin Loach, Worcestershire Genealogy

Guide to Edvin Loach, Worcestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
EDVIN-LOACH, a parish in the union of Bromyard, Upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Hundred-House and E. divisions of the county of Worcester, though locally in the hundred of Broxash, county of Hereford, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Bromyard. The church lies in the south part of the parish.

Additional information:

Edvin Loach is a village within the civil parish of Edvin Loach and Saltmarshe in Herefordshire Edvin Loach Wikipedia

Edvin Loach was formed originally as a chapelry of Clifton on Teme, Worcestershire Ancient Parish in the 11th century.

The ruins of the old Church of St Mary have been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

The parish church of St Mary dates from around 1860 and was designed by G G Scott to replace its ancient predecessor and has been designated as a grade C listed building British listed building

John Harnden The Parish Registers of Herefordshire, J Harnden, 1987, ISBN 0 9512347 0 6 describes Edvin Loach as a formerly detached part of Worcestershire in Herefordshire until 1893 when it transferred to Herefordshire and the civil parish of Edvin Loach and Saltmarshe was formed. This is not apparent in gazeteer entries like transcription 1868 National Gazetteer by Colin Hinson or Samuel A. Lewis "A Topographical Dictionary of England" (1848), pp. 147-150. British History Online

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
Edvin Loach 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.

Records are also available at the The Hive (where the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service is located).

Poor Law Unions
Bromyard 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 Worcestershire 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