Wistanstow, Shropshire, England Genealogy

Guide to Wistanstow, Shropshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Wistanstow
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Shropshire
Hundred	Purslow
Poor Law Union	Church Stretton
Registration District	Church Stretton
Records Begin
Parish registers	1687
Bishop's Transcripts	1660
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Clun
Diocese	Hereford
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
Archive
Shropshire Record Office

Parish History[edit | edit source]

WISTANSTOW (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Church-Stretton, partly in the hundred of Purslow, but chiefly in that of Munslow, S. division of Shropshire, 9¾ miles (N. W. by N.) from Ludlow. The Wesleyans have a place of worship there.^[1]

Resources[edit | edit source]

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Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England[edit | edit source]

Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records:

Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified

Dates in the following table are approximate

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Wistanstow Parish Records
All Chapelries Found in Wistanstow are included in these links.
Collections	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Shropshire	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
FamilySearch Parish Registers-Shropshire	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Shropshire ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Findmypast Banns-Shropshire ($)	-	-	1700s-1800s	-	-	-
Ancestry-Shropshire ($)	-	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-

Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Joiner Marriage Index - Shropshire ($)
The Genealogist Parish Registers - Shropshire ($)
UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]

1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

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.