Far Forest, Shropshire Genealogy
Guide to Far Forest, Shropshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Far Forest, Shropshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Doddingtree; Stottesdon; Wolphy |
| County | Shropshire |
| Poor Law Union | Cleobury Mortimer; Kidderminster |
| Registration District | Cleobury Mortimer; Kidderminster |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1848 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Burford |
| Diocese | Hereford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Shropshire Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
FAR-FOREST, a chapelry in Ribbesford and Rock parishes, Worcester, and Stottesden parish, Shropshire; near the Bewdley and Tenbury railway, 4 miles W of Bewdley. Post town, Bayton, under Bewdley.[1]
Contents
For more information and records see Far Forest, Worcestershire.
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]
Far Forest parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Far Forest Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PRs | 1538-1918 | 1538-1918 | 1538-1918 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FMP | 1538-1900 | 1538-1906 | 1518-1900 | |||
| FMP Banns | 1754-1900 | |||||
| ANC | 1538-1812 | 1538-1812 | 1538-1812 | |||
| TGEN | 1538-1800s | 1538-1800s | 1538-1800s | |||
| JOIN | 1538-1837 | |||||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records may be found on Mel Lockie. Records are also available at the Shropshire Archives.
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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Shropshire) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
