Bockleton, Herefordshire Genealogy

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

For more information and records see Bockleton, Worcestershire. 

Parish History
BOCKLETON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Tenbury, chiefly in the Upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Tenbury and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, but partly in the hundred of Broxash, county of Hereford, 5 miles (S.) from Tenbury;

Bockleton is a village and civil parish also part of the civil parish of Stoke Bliss in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire.

Bockleton St Michael and All Angels is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Hereford which includes Hampton Charles and is partly in Worcestershire and partly in Herefordshire. Part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Hatfield, Herefordshire and Thornbury, Herefordshire and the modern parish forms part of the Leominster Team Ministry Team Office The Forbury Chapel Church Street Leominster HR6 8NQ

See also Leominster Community portal for Leominster Benefice

Deposited parish registers are at The Diocesan Record Office for Herefordshire

Herefordshire Archive Service Herefordshire Record Office Harold Street Hereford HR1 2QX

Office Tel No: +44 (0)1432 260750 Email: archives@herefordshire.gov.uk

The Parish church of Bockleton St Michael, Bockleton Road, Worcestershire WR15 8PP in the civil parish of Bockleton has been designated as a grade II* listed building.

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
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 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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/Bockleton/index.html

Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.