Bridgnorth St Mary Magdalen, Shropshire Genealogy
Guide to Bridgnorth St Mary Magdalen, Shropshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Bridgnorth St Mary Magdalen, Shropshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Bridgnorth Borough |
| County | Shropshire |
| Poor Law Union | Bridgnorth |
| Registration District | Bridgnorth |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1610 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1662 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Bridgnorth |
| Diocese | Hereford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Royal Peculiar of Bridgnorth |
| Location of Archive | |
| Shropshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BRIDGNORTH, a borough and a market-town having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Stottesden, S. division of Shropshire, 20½ miles (S. E.) from Shrewsbury, and 140 (N.W.) from London. There is a modern church of St. Mary Magdalene. Bridgnorth town comprises the parishes of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Leonard. There are places of worship for Baptists, Wesleyans, Presbyterians, and Irvingites. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Bridgnorth St Mary Magdalen parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BRIDGNORTH ST MARY MAGDALEN PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1600-1725 | |||||
| FMP | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
| IGI | 1610-1839, 1872-1877 | 1610-1839 | ||||
| PALL | 1795-1812 | |||||
Bishop's transcripts held at Lichfield Record Office Bap 1813-1839 Marr 1813-1839 Bur 1813-1839. Missing all events 1836-1838.
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/BridgnorthStMaryMagdalen/index.html
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 395-400. Date accessed: 21 May 2012.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Baptisms 1538-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Marriages 1538-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Burials 1538-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Shropshire, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 22 April 2014.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
