Dodington, Shropshire Genealogy

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

Dodington, Shropshire
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred North Bradford
County Shropshire
Poor Law Union Whitchurch Incorp
Registration District Wem
Records begin
Parish registers: None
Bishop's Transcripts: None
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Market Drayton
Diocese Lichfield
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Shropshire Record Office

Parish History

DODINGTON, a township and a chapelry in Whitchurch parish, Shropshire, within a half mile of Whitchuch. The church was a chapel of ease, dedicated to St Catherine's and was constructed in 1836.[1] [2]

Resources

Find Neighboring Parishes

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

  • Type the name of the parish in the search bar
  • Click on the location pin on the map
  • Choose Options from the pop up box
  • Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Civil Registration

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.

    Registration Districts covering this area of Shropshire, included:


Church Records

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

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

Hover over the collection's title for more information

Dodington Online Parish Records
Collections
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Shropshire
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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FamilySearch Parish Registers-Shropshire
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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FreeREG
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Shropshire ($)
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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Findmypast Banns-Shropshire ($)
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1700s-1800s
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Ancestry-Shropshire ($)
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1500s-1800s
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1500s-1800s
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1500s-1800s
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)
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1500s-1900s
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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1500s-1800s
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Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Nonconformist Records

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

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 FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.


Indexes to some Censuses may be searched at FamilySearch. Click "Records Collections".

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


Poor Law Unions

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.

Websites

References

  1. John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales[1] (1870-72). Adapted. Accessed: 4 Feb 2013.
  2. Discover Shropshire website. Accessed 4 Feb 2013.


Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.