Caynham Shropshire Family History Guide

Caynham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.

Alternative names: Cainham

Other places in the parish include: Bennett’s End.

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin: 1558

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Parishes adjacent to Caynham

• Bitterley
• Knowbury
• Little Hereford
• Ludford
• Greete
• Ashford Carbonell
• Whitton

Historical Descriptions

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831

Cainham, a parish in the hundred of Stottesden, county of Salop, 3½ miles (E.S.E.) from Ludlow, containing 936 inhabitants. The living is a discharged Vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £4. 13. 4. J. Mainwaring, Esq. was patron in 1818. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831

Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824

Cainham; or Caynham. A parish in the Cleobury division of the hundred of Stottesden, a vicarage discharged, in the diocese of Hereford, the deanery of Ludlow, and archdeaconry of Salop. 194 houses, 936 inhabitants. 2 ½ miles south-east by east of Ludlow.

Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824

Parish Registers

The Register of Clee Hill (Parish of Caynham) Wesleyan Chapel 1796-1829

Shropshire parish registers : Nonconformist and Roman Catholic registers (1903)
Author: Shropshire Parish Register Society; Evans, George Eyre; Fletcher, W. G. D. (William George Dimock), 1851-1935; Kinsella, William
Publisher: [London] : Privately printed for the Shropshire Parish Register Society

The Register of Clee Hill (Parish of Caynham) Wesleyan Chapel 1796-1829 - Archive.org

Poll Books

Cainham Shropshire Poll Book 1865

Below are the names of those that voted in the election of July 1865 between Col. The Hon. P. E. Herbert, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., and R. Jasper More, Esq.

Poll Book of the Election, July 1865 for the Southern Division of Shropshire.

Ludlow Polling District

Cainham, Parish of

2306 Adams Charles

2307 Andrews William

2308 Bate Samuel, see 2251

2309 Bate Edwin

2310 Bate William

2311 Berrington John, see 2428

2312 Berrington William

2313 Bolton George Edward

2314 Corbett Thomas

2315 Curtis Sir William, Bart

2316 Cook Thomas

2317 Dewin Edwin

2318 Fletcher John

2319 Hatton Josiah

2320 Hatton Richard

2321 Jones Thomas

2322 Key James

2323 Matthews Thomas

2324 Medlicott Richard

2325 Purslow John

2326 Revel John

2327 Reynolds John

2328 Small Richard, see 2274

2329 Small William

2320 Small Edward

2331 Small Samuel

Directories

Caynham Cassey Shropshire Directory 1871

Caynham is a parish, 3 ½ miles from Ludlow, in the Southern division of the county, Cleobury division of Stottesden hundred, Ludlow union, and diocese of Hereford.  The church of St. Mary is an old stone building in the Early English style.  The living is a vicarage, yearly value £450, with residence, in the gift of S. K. Mainwaring, Esq.  There is a National school for boys and girls.  Caynham Camp is noted in history as the place from which Cromwell attacked the Royalist forces in Ludlow Castle.  Caynham Court is a modern mansion, the seat of Sir William Curtis, Bart., J.P., who is lord of the manor, and , with the vicar, the trustees of the late Hon. R. W. Clive, Sir Charles H. R. Boughton, Bart., and A. R. Boughton Knight, Esq., are the principal landowners.  The soil is clay and limestone.  The population in 1861 was 755; the area is 2,483; gross estimated rental, £4,016; rateable value, £3,390.

Bennett’s End is a township, partly included in Knowbury.

Letters are received through Ludlow.

Adams Rev. Charles, Vicarage

Curtis Sir William, bart. J.P. Caynham court
Grove Miss, Pougnhill
Moody Major-Gen. Richard Clement, Caynham house
Williams Rev. Seymour Yates, B.A.
Andrews William, farmer
Bolton George, farmer
Bowen Thomas, butcher and shopkeeper, Bennett’s end
Cook Thomas, farmer, Lady field
Corbett Thomas, shoe maker
Darby Edmund, farmer
Davis James, wheelwright
Edwards William, blacksmith
Mason Richard, farmer
Matthews Thomas, farmer
Medlicott Richard, farmer
Morris James, Bennett’s End Inn, and farmer, Bennett’s end
Small Edward, farmer
Small William, farmer

Source: Edward Cassey & Co.’s, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire 1871

Administration

• County: Shropshire
• Civil Registration District: Ludlow
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Hereford
• Rural Deanery: Ludlow
• Poor Law Union: Ludlow
• Hundred: Stottesdon
• Province: Canterbury