Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire Genealogy

England   Shropshire  Shropshire Parishes

Guide to Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CLEOBURY-MORTIMER (St. Mary), a markettown and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Stottesden, S. division of Shropshire, 32 miles(S. S. E.) from Shrewsbury, and 137 (N. W.) from London, on the road to Ludlow. There are two places of worship for Wesleyans; and a Roman Catholic chapel.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Cleobury Mortimer Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding and comprising the whole ancient parish of to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PRESTWICH ST MARY PARISH page.

Probate records
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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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