Winforton, Herefordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WINFORTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Kington, hundred of Huntington, county of Hereford, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Hay. It is beautified by the windings of the river Wye, and is intersected by the Hay and Kington tramway.

Winforton is a village in the civil parish of Willersley and Winforton in Herefordshire.

Winforton St Michael is an Ancient parish in Herefordshire; the church of St Michael has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See also Herefordshire Churches

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
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This parish was withinPresteigne registration district

Church Records
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Church of England
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Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

Census Records
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Poor Law Unions
Kington 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 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
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Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Winforton/index.html