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[[Image:St_Luke_Hodnet_Shropshire.jpg|thumb|right|Hodnet St Luke]]
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== Parish History  ==
== Parish History  ==


Hodnet St Luke&nbsp; is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire. Weston under Redcastle is a chapelry of Hodnet. Other places in the parish include: Hawkstone, Hawkstone Park, Hopton, Hopton and Espley, Kenstone, Wollerton, Losford, Lostford, Marchamley, Peplow, and Little Bolas. <br>
HODNET (St. Peter and St. Paul),'''a parish''', in the union of Drayton, Drayton division of the hundred of North Bradford, N. division of Shropshire, 6 miles (S. W.) from Drayton. Hodnet includes the chapelry of Weston-under-Redcastle. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51036 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)''], pp. 524-527. Date accessed: 18 June 2012.</ref>
 
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hodnet like this:
 
HODNET, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Salop; the village and the sub-district in Market-Drayton district, the parish partly also in Wem district. The village stands near the Wellington and Market-Drayton railway, 5½ miles SSW of Market-Drayton; and has a post office&nbsp; under Market-Drayton, a r. station, an inn, and fairs on 15 May and 20 Oct.—The parish contains also the townships of Little Bolas, Hawkstone, Hopton, Kenstone, Losford, Marchamley, Peplow, and Wollerton in Market-Drayton district, and the chapelry of Weston-and-Wixhill-under-Redcastle in Wem district. Acres, 16, 399. Real property, £18, 767. Pop., 1, 979. Houses, 395. The manor was known at Domesday as Odenett; was held by Roger Montgomery; and passed to the Vernons and others. Hodnet Hall was the seat of Richard Heber, the "Atticus" of Dibdin's "Biblomania;" and had, in his time, a great library, which was sold off at his death. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £1, 884.* Patron, A.H. Percy, Esq. The church is decorated English; has some painted windows and a fine octagonal tower; was recently well repaired; and contains tombs of the Vernons and the Hills, and a beautiful monument to Bishop Heber, who was rector upwards of fifteen years. There is a chapel of ease at Peplow. The donative of Weston-under-Redcastle is a separate charge. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, an endowed school with £8 a year, and other charities with £118. Lord J. Beauclerk was rector.—The sub-district contains the main part of Hodnet parish and four other parishes. Acres, 32, 204. Pop., 5, 095. Houses, 1, 042.<br><br>


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Parish History[edit | edit source]

HODNET (St. Peter and St. Paul),a parish, in the union of Drayton, Drayton division of the hundred of North Bradford, N. division of Shropshire, 6 miles (S. W.) from Drayton. Hodnet includes the chapelry of Weston-under-Redcastle. [1]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Bishop's transcripts held at Lichfield Record Office Bap 1630-1849 Marr 1630-1835 Bur  1630-1849

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records[edit | edit source]

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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.

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

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Reference
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  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 524-527. Date accessed: 18 June 2012.
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