Whitbourne, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire



Parish History
Whitbourne St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish in Eastern Herefordshire; the village and civil parish are described Whitbourne Wikipedia. Part of the parish boundary forms the county boundary with neighbouring Clifton on Teme, Worcestershire Martley, Worcestershire Knightwick with Doddenham, Worcestershire and Suckley, Worcestershire

The church of St John the Baptist has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Herefordshire Churches website Whitbourne St John the Baptist

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
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.