Aymestrey, Herefordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
AYMESTREY (St. John and St. Alkmund), a parish, in the union of Leominster, consisting of the townships of Conhope and Over Lye in the hundred of Stretford, and the townships of Aymestrey, Nether Lye, Shirley, Yatton, and Leinthall-Earls, in the hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford, 7 miles (N. W.) from Leominster.

Aymestry is a village and civil parish in north west Herefordshire It is an Ancient parish which includes Conhope, Covenhope, Mortimer's Cross, Yatton, Over Lye, Shirley, and Nether Lye within the parish boundary (see parish boundary map). From this parish the ecclesiastical parish of Leinthall Earles, Herefordshire was formed in 1756 from an inital chapelry of the Aymestry Ancient Parish.

The Parish church of St John the Baptist and St Alkmund has been designated as a grade I listed building

A history of the church is found at the Aymestrey Community website, and an illustrated architectural history is available from Kings Colege, London , Corpus of Romanesque architecture website.

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.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

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
Leominster 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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Aymestrey/index.html

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