Preston Wynne, Herefordshire Genealogy
England 
Herefordshire Herefordshire Parishes
| Preston Wynne, Herefordshire | |
|---|---|
 Preston Wynne Holy Trinity Church Herefordshire | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Broxash |
| County | Herefordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Hereford |
| Registration District | Hereford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1671 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1739 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Hereford |
| Diocese | Hereford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Dean of Hereford |
| Location of Archive | |
| Herefordshire Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
PRESTON-WYNNE (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the hundred of Broxash, union and county of Hereford, 6½ miles (N. E. by N.) from Hereford.[1]
Preston Wynne is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Herefordshire, created in 1734 from chapelry in Withington, Herefordshire Ancient Parish.
The church is isolated in fields with no vehicle access refelecting the site of a lost original settlement.
See also Preston Wynne Wikipedia
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]
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.
Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Preston Wynne
Census records[edit | edit source]
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
[1] to locate local Family History Centres in UK
[2] to locate outside UK.
Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.
Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
Find my Past census search 1841-1901
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Hereford Poor Law Union, Herefordshire
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Herefordshire 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]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 609-616. Accessed and adapted 13 April, 2013.
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.