Donnington Wood, Shropshire Genealogy

England   Shropshire  Shropshire Parishes



Parish History
DONNINGTON-WOOD, a chapelry, in the parish of Lilleshall, union of Newport, Newport division of the hundred of South Bradford, N. division of Shropshire, 3¾ miles (E. N. E.) from Wellington.

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
Bishop's transcripts held at Lichfield Record Office Bap 1813-1864 Marr none Bur 1813-1864

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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