Brockhampton (near Bromyard), Herefordshire Genealogy

Guide to Brockhampton (near Bromyard), Herefordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BROCKHAMPTON (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Ross, hundred of Greytree, county of Hereford, 6 miles North of Ross.

Brockhampton chapel in Brockhampton Park was formed as a chapel within Bromyard, Herefordshire Ancient Parish and includes in the parish Norton with Brockhampton and Lower Brockhampton.

The chapel dates from 1790 and is part of the Brockhampton Park estate. The chapel has been designated as a grade B listed building by English Heritage. British listed building

For further information about the Brockhampton Estate see Brockhampton Estate Wikipedia

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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)

Census Records
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Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Findmypast (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

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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

 * Brockhampton Bromyard

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