Morton Jeffries, Herefordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
MORTON-JEFFRIES, a parish, in the union of Bromyard, hundred of Radlow, county of Hereford, 5½ miles (S. W.) from Bromyard.

Morton Jeffries is a hamlet and civil parish in Herefordshire with a redundant Anglican parish church (dedication unknown) which formed an Ancient Parish. Morton Jefferies Wikipedia

The church was declared redundant in 1980 is now in the care of the of the Churches Conservation Trust Churches Conservation Trust website

See also Morton Jefferies Church Wikipedia

The parish church has been designated as a grade B listed building British listed building

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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
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Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/MoretonJeffries/index.html