Bosbury, Herefordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Bosbury is a village and civil parish about five miles north of Ledbury. Bosbury Wikipedia

Holy Trinity church is an Ancient Parish which included Upleadon and Catley.

The Church of the Holy Trinity has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Bosbury is within the largest 19th century hop growing region outside Kent although in the late 20th century the area declined in this business and many hops and oats yards were dismantled.

Bosbury was the site of the palace of the medieval bishops of Hereford and the palace remains are found near the church at Old Court Farm.

The Knights Templar presence at the present Prior's Court farm is also indicated by the Templar grave within the church.

BOSBURY (Holy Trinity), is a parish, in the union of Ledbury, the hundred of Radlow, and the county of Hereford, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Ledbury. There is also a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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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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Church Records
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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)

Poor Law Unions
Ledbury 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/Bosbury/index.html

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