Baschurch, Shropshire Genealogy

England   Shropshire

Parish History
Baschurch is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire. Little Ness, Shropshire is a chapelry of Baschurch.

Other places in the parish include: Birch, Yeaton, Bratton, Eyton, Fenemere, Walford, Eyton, Yeaton and Prescott, Fennemere, Merehouse, Murhouse, Newton, Newtown, Prescott, Stanwardine in the Fields, Stanwardine in the Wood, Walford, Weston Lullingfield, Weston Lullingfields, and Boreatton.

BASCHURCH (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Ellesmere, hundred of Pimhill, N. division of Salop, 8 miles (N. W. by N.) from Shrewsbury; containing 1491 inhabitants. It is intersected by the Ellesmere canal; and comprises 8213a. 1r. 10p., exclusively of the chapelry of Little Ness, which by computation contains 1300 acres: red sandstone for building is quarried. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £10. 16., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £203; impropriators, certain Landowners in the parish: the glebe comprises 40 acres. At Little Ness is a chapel of ease. Vestiges of a Roman camp may be traced in the neighbourhood.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 164-168. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50783 Date accessed: 13 May 2011.

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

BASCHURCH, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Ellesmere, Salop. The township lies on the river Perry, near the Ellesmere canal and the Shrewsbury and Chester railway, 8 miles NW of Shrewsbury; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Shrewsbury. The parish includes also the townships of Little Ness, Birch, Boreatton or Bratton, Eyton, Fennemere, Merehouse, or Murhouse, Newtown, Prescott, Stanwardine-in-the-Wood, Stanwardine-in-the-Fields, Walford, Weston-Lullingfield, and Yeaton. Acres, 8,273. Real property, £15,791. Pop., 1,559. Houses, 320. The property is subdivided. There are traces of a Roman camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £203.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient. The vicarage of Weston Lullingfield is a separate benefice. Harris's school has an endowed income of £324, and other charities have £17.-The subdistrict comprises four parishes. Acres, 21,283. Pop., 3,435. Houses, 712.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Bishop's transcripts held at Lichfield Record Office Bap 1630-1868 Marr 1630-1836 Bur 1630-1868

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Census records
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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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