Dinedor, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire

Parish History
Dinedor St Andrew is an Ancient Parish in Herefordshire

The church tower is believed to be 13th century but the rest of the building was rebuilt in 1867-1868 by F R Kempson and has been designated a grade II listed building by English Heritage British Listed Building

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dinedor like this:

DINEDOR, a parish in the district and county of Hereford; on the Monmouth and Hereford railway. adjacent to the river Wye, 2½ miles SE by S of Hereford. Post town, Hereford. Acres, 1, 678. Real property, £3, 292. Pop., 270. Houses, 56. The property is all in one estate. Dinedor Hill is crowned by a Roman camp, supposed to be that of Ostorius Scapula; and commands a lovely view. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £315. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church is good.

Civil Registration
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
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Herefordshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Hereford Poor Law Union, Herefordshire

Probate records
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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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