Edvin Loach, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire  Worcestershire Parishes



Parish History
Edvin Loach is a village within the civil parish of Edvin Loach and Saltmarshe in Herefordshire Edvin Loach Wikipedia

Edvin Loach was formed originally as a chapelry of Clifton on Teme, Worcestershire Ancient Parish in the 11th century.

The ruins of the old Church of St Mary have been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

The parish church of St Mary dates from around 1860 and was designed by G G Scott to replace its ancient predecessor and has been designated as a grade C listed building British listed building

John Harnden The Parish Registers of Herefordshire, J Harnden, 1987, ISBN 0 9512347 0 6 describes Edvin Loach as a formerly detached part of Worcestershire in Herefordshire until 1893 when it transferred to Herefordshire and the civil parish of Edvin Loach and Saltmarshe was formed. This is not apparent in gazeteer entries like transcription 1868 National Gazetteer by Colin Hinson or Lewis, Samuel A. "A Topographical Dictionary of England" (1848), pp. 147-150. British History Online

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

Census records
No records for Edvin Ralph can be located in the current search of Family History Library microfilm in Worcestershire Census and no entry for the civil parish is made in Herefordshire Census

FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal: Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.

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Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

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.

Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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 Worcestershire 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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Web sites
Worcester Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and HeraldryAdd any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.