Collington, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire



Parish History
Collington is an Ancient Parish in Herefordshire; the church of St Mary dates from 1856 and was built by A H Perkins of Worcester. It is designated a grade II listed building by English Heritage British Listed Building

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

COLLINGTON, a parish in Bromyard district, Hereford; adjacent to the boundary with Worcester, 3½ miles N of Bromyard, and 6½ SE of Tenbury r. station. Post town, Bromyard, under Worcester. Acres, 985. Real property, £1, 224. Pop., 150. Houses, 30. The property is divided among a few. Ripplewood House is the seat of the Whites. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Edwin-Ralph, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is a very neat stone structure of 1857. Charities, £7.

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
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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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