County Resources
Shropshire
Shelf Mark: SH
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-D | E-N | O-Z
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Shropshire [&] Staffordshire 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 part 1: Shropshire. London: SoG, 2002. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Alphabetical list of Shropshire marriage registers covered by marriage indexes [Photocopy.] [Box 55/folder 17]
Catalogue of the muniments & manuscript books pertaining to the Dean & Chapter of Lichfield ... : Collections for a history of Staffordshire, vol. 6 part 2, 1886 [ST/PER]
List of parish registers, printed & unprinted, in Shrewsbury borough library, 1955 [Photocopy.] [Shropshire tracts box]
Parish registers held in the Shropshire Records & Research Centre, August 1996 [SH/R 111]
Shropshire parish documents [list of parish chest documents under each parish in county] [SH/R 120]
Sources of Shropshire genealogy [SH/G 24]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.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]
Births & deaths from the digests of registers of religious Society of Friends: ZD(I) 1635-1837: in Shropshire registers, vol. 1 [Typescript.] [SH/R 109]
Dr. Williams' Library: Z 1743-1837 (Shropshire only): Shropshire registers, vol. 2 [Typescript] [SH/R 110]
English parish records: Shropshire (general & St. Asaph Diocese) [CD-ROM.] [CD-ROM cabinet (SH/REG)]
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]
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]
Shropshire burials index ... from 16th to 20th centuries including almost complete cover between 1813 & 1837 [CD-ROM cabinet (SH/REG)]
Strays from Clwyd, vol. 1 M(I) 1754-1812 & vol. 2 M(I) 1561-1949: Welsh registers, vol. 17 [WS/R 210]
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 British Origins
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 website
Abstracts of the marriage bonds & allegations of the Diocese of Lichfield ... 1711-16 : A-Z by groom [Microfiche.] [ML/LIC/82806/1-6]
Hereford Diocese marriage licence registers 1663-96, 1709-1843 [with contemporary indexes] [Microfilm.] [Mf 1884-1887]
A list of wills & marriage settlements in the Local History Collection of the Shrewsbury Public Library [Box 55/folder 32]
Marriage bonds of the Peculiars of the Diocese of Lichfield: miscellaneous, 1628-1748 [Typescript.] [ML/LIC]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
The deeds of Dudleston (including a collection of Shropshire epitaphs) [SH/L 6]
Sources of Shropshire genealogy [SH/G 24]
Monumental brasses in Shropshire, reprinted from The archaeological journal, March 1895 [SH/M 11]
Wrekin District roll of honour biographies [ARM/LST]
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. eg. Bishops Castle 1831 census, Wellington 1821 census, Wrockwardine & Wrockwardine Wood 1831 census
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
SHROPSHIRE - 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:
SHROPSHIRE - DIRECTORIES
or SHROPSHIRE - 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 British Origins. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The 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 www.1837online.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 British Origins
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 eg. 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:
eg SHROPSHIRE - 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 Shropshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Abdon | Acton Burnell | Acton Round | Acton Scott | Adderley | Alberbury | Albrighton near Shrewsbury | Albrighton near Wolverhampton | Alveley | Ashford Bowdler | Astley | Aston in Edgmond | Aston Botterell | Atcham | Badger | Barrow | Battlefield | Beckbury | Bedstone | Benthall | Berrington | Billingsley | Bishops Castle | Bitterley | Bolas| Bolas, Great or Magna | Bomere Heath | Boningale | Bourton | Bridgnorth | Brockton | Bromfield | Broseley | Broughton | Bucknell | Buildwas | Burford | Burwarton | Cardeston | Caynham | Chapel Lawn | Chelmarsh | Cheswardine | Chetton | Chetwynd | Chirbury | Church Aston | Church Preen | Church Stretton | Claverley | Clee St Margaret | Cleobury Mortimer | Cleobury, North | Clive | Clun | Clunbury | Clungunford | Clunton | Cold Weston | Condover | Coreley | Cound | Cressage | Crickheath | Culmington | Dawley Green | Dawley Magna | Deuxhill & Glazeley | Diddlebury | Ditton Priors | Donington | Dorrington | Dowles
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Shropshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Eardiston | Easthope | Eaton Constantine | Eaton under Haywood | Edgmond | Edgton | Edstaston | Ellesmere | Ercall, High | Ercall Magna | Felton, West | Fitz | Ford | Frankton | Frodesley | Greet or Greete | Grinshill | Habberley | Hadnall | Halford | Halston | Hanwood | Hanwood, Great | Harley | Hodnet | Holdgate | Hollinswood | Hope Bagot | Hope Bowdler | Hopesay | Hopton Castle | Hopton Wafers | Hordley | Hughley | Kenley | Kinlet | Kinnerley | Knockin | Leaton | Lee Brockhurst | Leebotwood | Leighton | Llanfair or Llanvair Waterdine | Llan-y-Blodwel | Llanymynech | Longdon upon Tern | Longnor | Loppington | Ludlow | Lydbury, North | Lydham | Lyth Hill | Madeley | Madeley Wood | Mainstone | Market Drayton | Mawley Hall | Melverley | Meole Brace | Middleton Scriven | Milson | Mindtown | Minsterley | Monkhopton or Monk Hopton | Montford | More | Moreton Corbet | Moreton Say | Morville | Mucklestone | Munslow | Myddle | Neen Savage | Neen Sollars | Neenton | Ness, Great | Ness, Little | Newport | Newtown | Norbury | Norton in Hales
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Shropshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Oldbury | Onibury | Oswestry | Pitchford | Plowden | Pontesbury | Prees | Preeshenlle | Preston Gobalds or Gubbals | Pulverbatch | Quatford | Quatt Malvern | Ratlinghope | Richard’s Castle | Rodington | Ruyton of the Eleven Towns | Selattyn | Shawbury | Sheinton | Shelve | Sheriff Hales | Shifnal | Shipton | Shrawardine | Shrewsbury | Sibdon Carwood | Sidbury | Silvington | Smethcott | St Martin | Stanton Lacy | Stanton upon Hine Heath | Stapleton | Stirchley | Stoke St Milborough | Stoke upon Tern | Stokesay | Stowe | Sutton near Shrewsbury | Sutton Maddock | Tasley | Tibberton | Tong | Tugford | Uffington | Uppington | Upton Cressett | Upton Magna | Waters Upton | Wellington | Wem | Wenlock, Little | Wenlock, Much | Westbury | Weston under Redcastle | Whitchurch | White Ladies | Whittington | Whixall | Willey | Wistanstow | Withington | Wolstaston | Wombridge | Woolstaston | Woore | Worfield | Worthen | Wrockwardine | Wrockwardine Wood | Wroxeter
