Cold Weston, Shropshire Genealogy
Guide to Cold Weston, Shropshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Cold Weston, Shropshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Munslow |
| County | Shropshire |
| Poor Law Union | Ludlow |
| Registration District | Ludlow |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1689 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1663 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Ludlow |
| Diocese | Hereford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Shropshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
WESTON, COLD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Ludlow, hundred of Munslow, S.division of Shropshire, 5¾ miles (N. E. by E.) from Ludlow. [1]
Resources
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
Cold Weston, Shropshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FMP = Shropshire Records (findmypast) - (£)[3][4][5] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[6] |
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images |
| BIVRI | 1663-1782 | |
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| FMP | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
| IGI | 1663-1874 | 1684-1885 | ||||
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Non Conformist Churches
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/ColdWeston/index.html
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 524-527. Date accessed: 05 June 2012.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 21 February 2014.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Baptisms 1538-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Marriages 1538-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ 'Shropshire Burials 1538-1900,' findmypast, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Shropshire, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 22 April 2014.
