County Resources
Herefordshire
Shelf Mark: HE
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
County-wide sources:
- General Registers
- Marriage Licences
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- Parishes: A-E | F-N | O-Z
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Herefordshire [&] Worcestershire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National index of parish registers, vol. 5 South Midlands & Welsh border comprising the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire. 3rd corrected impression. London: SoG, 1976. [TB/PR]
The parish registers of Herefordshire with additional notes on other source material. 2nd edn. [HR/R 40]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the Origins Network.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at FamilySearch.org
British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]
Bertram Merrell's marriage index of Herefordshire [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]
An extract of Shropshire marriages from the Digest of Registers 1657-1836 of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Hereford, Worcester & Wales General Meeting & Supplement ... 1655-1837, Cheshire & Staffordshire Meeting [Computer printout.] [Box 55/folder 39]
Herefordshire burial index 1813-39 [CD-ROM] [Apply to library staff]
LUDLOW (Wesleyan Circuit): CZ 1816-36 (Herefordshire extracts); LUDLOW (Primitive Methodist Circuit): C 1825-34 (Herefordshire extracts): The surrendered nonconformist registers of Herefordshire to 1837 [Typescript.] [HR/R 13]
MONMOUTH (Wesleyan Circuit): CZ 1815-21, 1827-36 (Herefordshire extracts) [RG 4/1952]: The surrendered nonconformist registers of Herefordshire to 1837 [Typescript.] [HR/R 13]
Ross Registration District burial index 1813-39 [CD-ROM] [SOGNET]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Herefordshire, Worcestershire & Wales General Meeting: Z 1635-1837 & 1681-1804, M 1657-1836, 1657-1765 & 1680-1800, B 1650-1838, 1659-1776 & 1683-1774 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3377]
Society of Friends monthly meetings for Herefordshire & Radnorshire, registration of births 1826-1909 & burials 1839-1908 [Typescript.] [HR/R 1]
Visitation book of cemetery burials: MIs [Microfilm.] [Mf 2107]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
Herefordshire monumental [inscriptions] index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
HEREFORDSHIRE - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
HEREFORDSHIRE - DIRECTORIES
or HEREFORDSHIRE - POLL BOOKS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at National Archives.
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at findmypast.com
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network
For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court e.g. Biggleswade Peculiar Court
Or if you do not know the name of the church court:
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
HEREFORDSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
SOGCAT On-line
CatalogueThe Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Herefordshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Abbey Dore | Aconbury | Allensmore | Almeley | Amberley | Ashperton | Aston | Aston Ingham | Avenbury | Aylton | Aymestrey | Bacton | Ballingham | Bartestree | Birch, Little | Birch, Much | Birley | Bishops Frome | Bishopstone | Blakemere | Bodenham | Bolstone | Bosbury | Brampton Abbotts | Brampton Bryan | Bredenbury | Bredwardine | Breinton | Bridge Sollers | Bridstow | Brilley | Brimfield | Brinsop | Brobury | Brockhampton chapelry | Brockhampton in Bromyard | Brockhampton in Woolhope | Brockhampton by Ross | Bromyard | Bullingham | Burghill | Burrington | Byford | Byton | Callow | Canon Frome | Canon Pyon | Castle Frome | Clehonger | Clifford | Clodock & Longtown | Coddington | Collington | Colwall | Cowarne, Little | Cowarne, Much | Cradley | Credenhill | Croft | Cusop | Dewchurch, Little | Dewchurch, Much | Dewsall | Dilwyn | Dinedor | Docklow | Donnington | Dormington | Dorstone | Downton | Dulas | Eardisland | Eardisley | Eastnor | Eaton Bishop | Edvin Loach | Edvin Ralph | Eign Brook | Elton | Evesbatch | Ewyas Harold | Eye
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Herefordshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Fawley in Fownhope | Felton | Ford or Ford Bridge Chapel | Fownhope | Foy | Ganarew | Garway | Goodrich | Gorsley | Grendon Bishop | Hampton Bishop | Hardwick | Harewood | Hatfield | Hentland | Hereford | Hereford, Little | Holme Lacy | Holmer | Hope Mansell | Hope under Dinmore | How Caple | Humber | Huntington by Hereford | Huntington by Kington | Ivington | Kenchester | Kenderchurch | Kentchurch | Kilpeck | Kimbolton | Kings Caple | Kings Pyon | Kingsland | Kington | Kinnersley | Kinsham | Knill | Lea | Ledbury | Leinthall Earls | Leinthall Starkes | Leintwardine | Leominster | Letton | Leysters | Lingen | Linton | Llancillo | Llandinabo | Llangarron | Llangrove | Llanrothal | Llanwarne | Lucton | Lugwardine | Lyde | Lyonshall | Madley | Mansell Gamage | Mansell Lacy | Marcle, Little | Marcle, Much | Marden | Marstow | Michael Church | Michaelchurch Escley | Middleton on the Hill | Moccas | Monkland | Monnington on Wye | Mordiford | Moreton Jeffries | Moreton on Lugg | Munsley | Norton, Radnorshire | Norton Canon
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Herefordshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Ocle Pychard | Orcop | Orleton | Pembridge | Pencombe | Pencoyd | Peterchurch | Peterstow | Pipe | Pixley | Preston on Wye | Preston Wynne | Putley | Rollstone | Ross | Rowlstone | Sapey, Upper | Sarnesfield | Sellack | Shobdon | Sollers Hope | St Devereux | St Margaret | St Weonard | Stanford Bishop | Staunton on Arrow | Staunton on Wye | Stoke Bliss | Stoke Edith | Stoke Lacy | Stoke Prior | Stretford | Stretton Grandison | Stretton Sugwas | Sutton | Tarrington | Tedstone de la Mere | Tedstone Wafer | Thornbury | Thruxton | Titley | Tretire | Turnastone | Tyberton | Ullingswick | Upton Bishop | Vowchurch | Wacton | Walford | Walterstone | Wellington | Wellington Heath | Welsh Bicknor | Welsh Newton | Weobley | Westhide | Weston Beggard | Weston under Penyard | Whitbourne | Whitchurch | Whitney | Wigmore | Willersley | Winforton | Withington | Wolferlow | Woolhope | Wormbridge | Wormesley | Yarkhill | Yarpole | Yazor
