Welsh Bicknor, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire  Herefordshire Parishes

Parish History
BICKNOR (Welsh), a parish in the district of Monmouth and county of Hereford: within a loop of the river Wye, opposite English Bicknor, 4¾ miles S by W of Ross r. station. Post Town, Goodrich, under Ross. Acres, 8,502. Real property, £1,572. Pop., 80. Houses, 18. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £169.* Patron, Rev. F. Aldrich-Blake. The church was rebuilt in 1859. A recumbent stone figure in the previous church is said to have been monumental of the Countess of Salisbury, who nursed Henry V. at Courtfield, a mansion about half a mile off.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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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.

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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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