Stoke Prior, Herefordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STOKE-PRIOR, a parish, in the union of Leominster, hundred of Wolphy, county of Hereford. There is also Stoke-Prior township, 3 miles (S. E.) from Leominster.

Stoke Prior is a small village in the civil parish of Ford and Stoke Prior, to the south east of Leominster in Herefordshire Stoke Prior Herefordshire Wikipedia

Stoke Prior was formed as an Ecclesiastical parish from the Ancient Parish of Leominster, Herefordshire in 1745 and includes in the parish boundary Wickton, Risbury, Ford's Bridge and Steen's Bridge. A map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you

The parish church of St Luke Stoke Prior was rebuilt in 1863 and has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Ford St John of Jerusalem is also within the parish and serves a previously extra parochial part of the parish see Ford, Herefordshire

Stoke Prior St Luke with Ford St John of Jerusalem are part of the Leominster Team Ministry Leominster Community Portal

See also Herefordshire Churches

Find Neighboring Parishes
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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions
Leominster 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
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/StokePrior/index.html