Wombridge, Shropshire Genealogy

England   Shropshire   Shropshire Parishes

Guide to Wombridge, Shropshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WOMBRIDGE (St. Mary and St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred of South Bradford, N. division of Shropshire, 3 miles (E.) from Wellington. The Wesleyans have a place of worship.

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

Bishop's transcripts held at the Lichfield Record Office Bap 1799-1868 Marr 1799-1836 Bur  1799-1868 Missing Bap &amp; Bur 1813, missing Bap &amp; Bur 1837-1855

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Wombridge/index.html