Wem, Shropshire Genealogy
Guide to Wem, Shropshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Wem, Shropshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | North Bradford |
County | Shropshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Wem |
Registration District | Wem |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1583 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1659 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Wem |
Diocese | Lichfield |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Shropshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
In 1848 - WEM (St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town andparish, and the head of a union, partly in the hundred of Pimhill, but chiefly in the Whitchurch division of the hundred of North Bradford, N. division of Shropshire. There are places of worship for Baptists and Presbyterians. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
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.
Year | Piece | Folios |
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1841 | ||
1851 | ||
1861 | ||
1871 | ||
1881 | ||
1891 | ||
1901 |
NOTE: Many census transcribers have confused the town of Wem with "WEM", the Chapman Code for the county of Westmeath in Ireland! Beware of places of birth such as Edstaston, Westmeath, Ireland, as they should read Edstaston, Wem, Shropshire, England. There are many thousands of these errors!!!
Civil Records[edit | edit source]
The parish of Wem originally formed part of the Wem & Whitchurch Registration District when it was created on 1 Jul 1837. This was later renamed Wem Registration District when a separate registration district was created for Whitchurch. In 1935 the Wem Registration District was incorporated into the Whitchurch Registration District.
Years | District | Sub-district | Volumes |
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1837-1935 | Wem | Wem | XVIII (1837-51) 6a (1852-1935) |
1 Apr 1935 - 31 Dec 1969 | Whitchurch | Wem | 6a (1853-1946) 9A (1946-69) |
1 Jan 1970 - 1974 | North Shropshire | Wem | 9A (1970-74) |
Church Records[edit | edit source]
The following records for Wem are available on the IGI:
Church | Type | Years | Batch Number |
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St. Peter & St. Paul | Baptisms | 1813-1875 | C008992 |
St. Peter & St. Paul | Marriages | 1582-1812 | M008991 |
St. Peter & St. Paul | Marriages | 1813-1836 | M008992 |
St. Peter & St. Paul | Mixed | 1583-1812 | P008991 |
Wem parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
WEM PARISH (1583) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BOYD | 1582-1812 | |||||
FMP | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
IARC | 1583-1812 | 1583-1812 | 1583-1812 | |||
JOIN | 1582-1837 | |||||
MLOC | 1583-1812 | 1583-1812 | 1583-1812 | |||
PALL | 1790-1810s |
Bishop's transcripts held at Lichfield Record Office Bap 1659-1881 Marr 1659-1836 Bur 1659-1881 Missing all events 1871-1873, 1880
Nonconformist Church Records[edit | edit source]
The following records for Wem are available on the IGI:
Church | Type | Years | Batch Number |
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Cripple Street Baptist | Baptisms | 1823-1836 | C092491 |
Noble Street Presbyterian | Baptisms | 1822-1837 | C016442 |
Independent Chapel | Mixed | 1779-1837 | P016291 |
Presbyterian Chapel | Mixed | 1755-1814 | P016441 |
Bibliography[edit | edit source]
- Wem: a brief history to celebrate the 900th anniversary of Domesday Book, Patricia Jones 1986.
- The story of Wem and its neighbourhood, 1952 (reprinted 1975 with additions).
Websites[edit | edit source]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Wem/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 506-509. Date accessed: 11 June 2012.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Baptisms 1538-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Marriages 1538-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Banns 1760-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Burials 1538-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 9 September 2013.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes.