Tilstock, Shropshire Genealogy
Guide to Tilstock, Shropshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Tilstock, Shropshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | North Bradford |
| County | Shropshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Whitchurch Incorp |
| Registration District | Wem |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1836 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1836 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Market Drayton |
| 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]
TILSTOCK; a chapelry, in the parish of Whitchurch, Whitchurch division of the hundred of North Bradford, N. division of Shropshire, 2½ miles (S.) from Whitchurch. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Independents.[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]
Tilstock parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Tilstock 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. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Whitchurch Incorporation Poor Law Union, Shropshire Genealogy
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.
See also[edit | edit source]
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]
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 360-362. Date accessed: 11 May 2012.
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Shropshire) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
