Wacton, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire

Parish History
Wacton was united with Bredenbury, Herefordshire in 1875.

The church of St Andrew was built as a new replacemnt for the ancient medieval church at Bredenbury and for the ruined church at Wacton and the church opened in 1877. Designed by T H Wyatt and reusing stone from the two predecessor sites on land given by William Henry Barneby of nearby Bredenbury Court. See Herefordshire Churches Bredenbury with Brendon Bishop &amp; Wacton

The church of St Andrew has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

The village and civil parish of Bredenbury and the united benefice are described in Bredenbury Wikipedia The village and civil parish of Wactoon are described in Wacton Wikipedia

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. 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

Census records
See Herefordshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Bromyard 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

Web sites
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