Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire England  Herefordshire Parishes

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

Parish History
BRAMPTON-BRYAN (St. Barnabas), a parish which is in South Wales and England. In South Wales it is in the union of Knighton, partly in the hundred of Knighton, and the county of Radnor. In England, it is chiefly in the hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford, 10 miles (W. by S.) from Ludlow.

Part of this parish is in Radnorshire, Brampton-Bryan Wales.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Herefordshire Census

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.

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/BramptonBryan/index.html

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