Wacton, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire  Herefordshire Parishes

Parish History
WACTON, a parish, in the union of Bromyard, hundred of Broxash, county of Hereford, 3½ miles (N. W. by W.) from Bromyard. It comprises by measurement 970 acres, of which 350 are arable, 552 meadow and pasture, 56 in hop plantations, and 12 woodland. The church is a very ancient edifice, with about 50 or 60 sittings.

Wacton was united with Bredenbury, Herefordshire in 1875.

The church of St Andrew was built as a new replacemnt for the ancient medieval church at Bredenbury and for the ruined church at Wacton and the church opened in 1877. Designed by T H Wyatt and reusing stone from the two predecessor sites on land given by William Henry Barneby of nearby Bredenbury Court. See Herefordshire Churches Bredenbury with Brendon Bishop &amp; Wacton

The church of St Andrew has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

The village and civil parish of Bredenbury and the united benefice are described in Bredenbury Wikipedia The village and civil parish of Wactoon are described in Wacton Wikipedia

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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Census records
Census returns for Wacton 1841-1891

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Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

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Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search.Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions
Bromyard 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.

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