Ightfield, Shropshire Genealogy

Guide to Ightfield, Shropshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
IGHTFIELD (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Wem, Whitchurch division of the hundred of North Bradford, N. division of Shropshire, 4¼ miles (S. E. by E.) from Whitchurch.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Bishop's transcripts held at Lichfield Record Office Bap 1682-1830 Marr 1682-1830 Bur 1682-1830 Parish registers for Ightfield Microfilm of original records at the Shropshire County Record Office, Shrewsbury.Shropshire Record Office no.: 975/1/1-6, 8

Baptisms, marriages, burials 1557-1767 Baptisms, burials 1768-1812 Notebook recording births and deaths 1669-1765 (This notebook is severely damaged, and is nearly all illegible!) FHL BRITISH Film 1886132 Items 6-10 Baptisms 1813-1882 Burials 1813-1900 Marriages 1813-1900, 1755-1809 Banns 1823-1900 FHL BRITISH Film 1657565 Items 29-34 Bishop's transcripts for Ightfield Microfilm of original records in the Lichfield Joint Record Office, Stafford.

Baptisms, marriages and burials 1634-1810. FHL BRITISH Film 429027 Item 1 Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1813-1830. FHL BRITISH Film 502932 Item 2

Parish chest records, 1738-1861 Microfilm copy of original records in the Shropshire County Record Office, Shrewsbury. Shropshire Record Office no.: 2477/1/5; 975/1/9

Churchwardens' accounts 1845-1861 FHL BRITISH Film 1657785 Item 17 Overseers' accounts 1738-1791 FHL BRITISH Film 1911429 Item 1

Poor Law Unions
Whitchurch Incorporation Poor Law Union, Shropshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Shropshire 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/SAL/Ightfield/index.html