Bridge Sollers, Herefordshire Genealogy

Guide to Bridge Sollers, Herefordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
The parish church of St Andrew bridge Sollers has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also Bridge Sollers Wikipedia for origin of the place name.

Bridge Sollers St Andrew is an Ancient Parish in Herefordshire; the civil parish is Bridge Sollers.

BRIDGE-SOLLERS (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Weobley, hundred of Grimsworth, county of Hereford, 6½ miles Northwest of Hereford.

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.

From 1837 this area was part of Weobley registration district

Certificates may be obtained from Herefordshire The Register Office Town Hall St. Owens Street Hereford HR1 1RJ Phone 01432 260565

Fax 01432 261720

Email registrars@herefordshire.gov.uk

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

Herefordshire Archives Harold Street Hereford HR1 2QX England Tel: 01432 260750 Fax: 01432 260066 Email: archives@herefordshire.gov.uk Website: here

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Herefordshire Census

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 the FHC Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that genenerally charge for subscriptions.

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Bridge Sollers

Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.