Shropshire

Shropshire County Map (source: Wikipedia)

Shropshire.

County town: Shrewsbury

Other major towns: Whitchurch, Telford, Ludlow, Ironbridge

On the border with Wales the county of Shropshire is bisected by the river Severn. Home to probably the most famous bridge in the country and Ironbridge the world’s first iron bridge at 196 feet in length, straddling a gorge across the river Severn.

Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury and there is a statue of him in the library gardens.

Register Office Contact Details

Shropshire has a county registration service, all enquiries are dealt with via a central point or online.

Copy Certificate information: Copy certificates - Shropshire County Council

• Online Applications for copy certificates

Record Office Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.

Record Office Lookup Contacts

• Shropshire Archives Weekly Wilf NOT during sch hols

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please private message the member with your queries.

Links

Primary Reference Links

• County Record Office

• Shropshire Routes to Roots

• Broseley Local History Society, Incorporating the Wilkinson Society

• Family History Society

• Local History Society

• Shropshire Look-up Exchange

• Shropshire GenWeb Project

Countywide Interest

• The Midlands' digital library

• Cheshire, Staffs & Shropshire Memorial Inscriptions

• Discovering Shropshire's History

• Inns of 1828

• Parishmouse covers Shropshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.

• Secret Shropshire

• Some Shropshire Burials and Wills

• Shropshire Transcriptions

• Villages and Townships on the Shropshire/Staffordshire Borders

• Shropshire Workhouses

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Alveley Village

• Old Wills of Cleobury Mortimer

• 1891 Census of East Hamlet Ludlow

• Lydbury North

• Maesbury

• Oswestry History

• Smethcote Parish Registers

• Shifnal History

• Mayors of Shrewsbury, 1638 - the Present

• The Registers of Smethcote 1609-1912

• 1871 Census for Lunatic Asylum, St Julian - Shropshire

• Wrockwardine Village History

Maps and Photographs

• Paintings & Photographs of Shropshire

• Gravestone Photograph Project

Misc info

For people with ancestors who came from Myddle/Middle

In 1770 Richard Gough wrote 'The History of Myddle' It relates the daily activities of the ordinary people who lived there.

On genuk.org there is a list of the people who appear in the book.

I have a copy of book so if you find anyone, send me a pm and I can look them up for you.

Jeanie with one n

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