Eardisley, Herefordshire Family History Guide

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Eardisley or Eardisley with Bollingham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Herefordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Bollingham, Parton, Field, Newmans Place, Lower Welson, Upper Welson, Woods Eaves, Upper Spond.

Alternative names: Eardisley with Bollingham, Erdesley

Parish church: St. Mary Magdalene
Chapel of ease: St Silas Bollingham

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1630
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660

Adjacent Parishes

Nonconformists include: Calvinist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

EARDISLEY
EARDISLEY HEREFORDSHIRE 1930s
EARDISLEY CHURCH ROAD
EARDISLEY 1924

Eardisley Parish Registers

Search online indexed transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials. Taken from the original parish registers, these entries may include names, dates, family relationships, residences, occupations and other details noted by the minister, with earlier records naturally offering fewer details.

Baptism Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of baptisms.

Eardisley Herefordshire Baptisms 1660-1875

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of marriages.

Eardisley, Herefordshire Marriages 1661-1885

Eardisley, St Mary Magdalene, Herefordshire Marriages 1636-1837

Death and Burial Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burials.

Eardisley, Herefordshire Burials 1631-1839

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EARDISLEY, or Erdesley, a village and a parish in the district of Presteigne and county of Hereford. The village stands on an affluent of the river Wye, on the tram road from Hay to Kington, near the railway from Hereford to Brecon, 5 miles S by E of Kington; and has a station on the railway, a post office under Hereford, a fair on 15 May, and a great market on 18 Oct. The parish comprises 4,533 acres; and is cut into two divisions, lower and upper. Real property of the lower div., £4,299; of the upper div., £2,558. Pop. of the whole, 826. Houses, 171. The property is divided among a few.

The family of Baskerville was seated here from Domesday till 1640; and they had a strong castle here, some small remains of which still exist. Coke, Bishop of Hereford, ejected at the Commonwealth, resided and died here at his seat of Lower Moor. An oak tree, about ½ a mile from the church, covers a surface of 324 feet in circuit, and has a trunk 30 feet in girth, and 18 feet high.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £255. Patron, W. P. Herrick, Esq., The church consists of nave and north aisle, with low embattled tower; has a curiously-sculptured Norman font; and is good. There are a chapel of ease and a Wesleyan chapel. Charities, £6.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Wooding George, Eardisley, Herefordshire, draper and grocer, May 8, 1829.

Administration

  • County: Herefordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Presteigne
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Hereford
  • Rural Deanery: Weobley
  • Poor Law Union: Kington
  • Hundred: Huntington
  • Province: Canterbury