Eaton under Heywood, Shropshire Genealogy

England   Shropshire  Shropshire Parishes

Guide to Eaton under Heywood, Shropshire family history and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
EATON, a parish in Church-Stretton district, Shropshire; on Eaton Brook, under Wenlock Edge, 4½ miles SE by E of Church Stretton town and r. station.

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
Eaton under Heywood parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Shropshire 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
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