Leintwardine with Adforton, Herefordshire Genealogy
Guide to Leintwardine with Adforton, Herefordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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Part of this parish is in Shropshire. See also Leintwardine with Adforton, Shropshire Genealogy.
Leintwardine with Adforton, Herefordshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Wigmore |
County | Herefordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Ludlow |
Registration District | Ludlow; Knighton |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1547 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1638 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Clun |
Diocese | Hereford |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Herefordshire Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
LEINTWARDINE (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the unions of Ludlow and Knighton, hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford; including the townships of Brakes, Heath with Jay, Kington, Leintwardine, Marlow, Walford with Letton and Newton, Whitton with Trippleton, and Adforton with Stanway, Payton, and Grange. The parish is situated at the northern extremity of the county, where it borders on Shropshire, and near the confluence of the Teme and the Clun; and from the quantity of fine fish, particularly graylings, with which these rivers abound, it is much resorted to as a fishing-place.[1]
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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]
Leintwardine with Adforton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
Leintwardine with Adforton Online Parish Records | ||||||
Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FS BTs | 1583-1898 | 1583-1898 | 1583-1898 | |||
FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
FMP | 1538-1935 | 1538-1936 | 1541-1992 | |||
NBI | 1813-1839 | |||||
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.
The Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre houses many parish registers. See The records we hold for a list of records available there. How to contact them:
- Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
Fir Tree Lane
Rotherwas
Hereford HR2 6LA
Telephone: +44 (0)1432 260750
Email: archives@herefordshire.gov.uk
Website: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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 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[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/HEF/Leintwardine/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 65-68. Accessed and adapted: 8 March 2013
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.