Bartestree, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire  Herefordshire Parishes

Parish History
BARTESTREE, a chapelry, in the parish of Dormington, hundred of Greytree, and the union and county of Hereford, 4½ miles (E.) from Hereford.

Bartestree is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire see Bartestree Wikipedia

Bartestree was formed as a chapelry in the Dormington, Herefordshire Ancient Parish however the Parish Church of St James dates from 1888.A map of the parish boundary of Lugwardine with Bartestree is available at A church near you The church building was declared redundant and converted to a private residential development, see

The parish church of St James has been designated as a grade II listed building

The Convent of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge was built in 1863 and closed in 1992 and was subsequently redeveloped as private residential dwellings. The Convent and adjacent disused Roman Catholic church have both been designated, the Convent has been designated as a grade II listed building

The disused Roman Catholic Church of St James which was relocated to a site adjacent to the convent and built to the design of Edward Wlby Pugin has been designated as a grade II* listed building and the English Heritage listing includes a history of the development of the convent for the daughter of the land owner Robert Biddulph Phillips.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records.

The Diocesan Record Office for Herefordshire has deposited Parish registers reference AF59, BG62 and Bishop's transcripts 1813-1833

AF59/1 Banns and Marriages, 1811 (Also contains banns, 1814, 1823, 1903)

AF59/2 Marriages 1814-1825

BG62/1 Marriages 1844-1891

Herefordshire Archive Service Herefordshire Record Office Harold Street Hereford HR1 2QX

Office Tel No: +44 (0)1432 260750 Email: archives@herefordshire.gov.uk

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
census returns for Bartestree 1841-1891

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.

to locate local Family History Centres in UK

to locate outside UK. 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
Hereford 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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