Clodock, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire



Parish History
Clodock is an Ancient Parish in Herefordshire from which the chapelries of Llanveynoe, Herefordshire and Longtown, Herefordshire were formed.

The church is dedicated to St Clydawg (or Clydog) and has been designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage Clodock Wikipedia

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Clodock like this:

CLODOCK, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in the district and county of Hereford. The village stands on the river Munnow, under the Black Mountains, 4½ miles W of Pontrilas r. station, and 15 SW of Hereford. The parish includes the chapelries of Longtown, Llanveynoe, Crasswall, and Newton; and its post town is Pontrilas, under Hereford. Acres, 17, 833. Real property, £10, 704. Pop., 1, 794. Houses, 372. The property is much subdivided. An old castle and a camp are here, on the line of Watling-street. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £222.* Patron, W. Wilkins, Esq. The church is early English, with a tower, and good. The p. curacies of-Longtown, Llanveynoe, Crasswall, and Newton are separate benefices. Charities, £40.—The sub-district contains seven parishes. Acres, 28, 404. Pop., 2, 864. Houses, 578.

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
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Herefordshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Dore 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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