Bockleton, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire  Worcestershire Parishes

'''Part of this parish is in Herefordshire. See also Bockleton, Herefordshire.'''

Parish History
Bockleton is a village and part of the civil parish of Stoke Bliss in the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire.Bockleton Wikipedia

Bockleton St Michael and All Angels is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Hereford which includes Hampton Charles and is partly in Worcestershire and partly in Herefordshire. Part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Hatfield, Herefordshire and Thornbury, Herefordshire and the modern parish forms part of the Leominster Team Ministry Team Office The Forbury Chapel Church Street Leominster HR6 8NQ

See also Leominster Community portal for Leominster Benefice

Deposited parish registers are at The Diocesan Record Office for Herefordshire

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

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

See also Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 290-295. [ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50810+ at British History Online]

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
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Worcestershire 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

Web sites
Worcester Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and HeraldryAdd any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.