Ludlow, Shropshire Genealogy

Guide to Ludlow, Shropshire parish register transcripts, census, birth records, marriage records, death records, and wills.

Parish History
LUDLOW (St. Lawrence), a borough,market town, and parish, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Munslow, S. division of Shropshire, 29 miles (S. by E.) from Shrewsbury, and 142 (N. W. by W.) from London.

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

Churchwardens' accounts from 1540-1603 (transcripts) are available for online at Internet Archives - free.

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/Ludlow/index.html