Whitchurch, Herefordshire Genealogy

England  Herefordshire  Herefordshire Parishes Guide to Whitchurch, Herefordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.  Parish History WHITCHURCH (St. Dubritius), a parish, in the union of Monmouth, Lower division of the hundred of Wormelow, county of Hereford, 6½ miles (S. W. by S.) from Ross. This parish is situated on the bank of the river Wye, and on the road from Ross to Monmouth; and comprises about 2000 acres, including an extra-parochial district of the same name, which consists of 130 acres. There are places of worship for Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans. Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 543-551. Accessed and adapted 9 July, 2013. Resources 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 Census records  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 generally charge for subscriptions. Probate records Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Herefordshire Probate Records</a> 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. <ul><li>England Jurisdictions 1851</a> </li><li>Vision of Britain</a> </li></ul> Websites http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Whitchurch/index.html References <span class="fck_mw_references" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="references" /> Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above. <span class="fck_mw_template">

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