Ratlinghope, Shropshire Family History Guide

Ratlinghope is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.

Other places in the parish include: Stitt with Gatten, Stitt and Gattin, and Stitt and Gatten.

Parish church: St. Margaret

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1755
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1638

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Wentnor
• Church Stretton
• Worthen
• Church Pulverbach
• Habberley

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RATLINGHOPE, a township and a parish in Clun district, Salop. The township lies on the river Onny, 4½ miles W N W of Church-Stretton r. station. The parish contains also the township of Stitt-with-Gatten; and its post town is Church-Stretton, Shropshire. Acres, 5,559. Rated property, £2,299. Pop., 285. Houses, 45. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to R. Scott, Esq. Part of the land is waste. A thin vein of copper ore has been found. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £65. Patrons, B. and W. Hawkins, Esqs. The church is tolerable.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Ratlinghope Parish Registers

Ratlinghope Parish Registers 1755 to 1812 Shropshire Parish Registers Diocese of Hereford Vol. 5 (1909) Author: Shropshire Parish Register Society. Publisher: Privately printed for the Shropshire Parish Register Society – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Parish Records

FamilySearch

United Kingdom, England, Shropshire, Ratlinghope – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of St. Margaret’s Church, Ratlinghope, Shropshire, 1742-1980
Author: Pinches, Olwyn

United Kingdom, England, Shropshire, Ratlinghope – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Ratlinghope, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

United Kingdom, England, Shropshire, Ratlinghope – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Ratlinghope, 1638-1881
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ratlinghope (Shropshire)

Bishop’s transcripts of Ratlinghope, Shropshire, 1661-1812
Author: Andrews, Harry; Church of England. Parish Church of Ratlinghope (Shropshire); Shropshire Family History Society

Shropshire parish registers of the parishes of Bromfield, Greet, Bedstone, Middleton Scriven, Deuxhill and Glazeley, Habberley, Cardeston and Ratlinghope
Author: Church of England. Diocese of Hereford; Fletcher, W. G. D. (William George Dimock), 1851-1935; Church of England. Parish Church of Bromfield (Shropshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Greet (Shropshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Bedstone (Shropshire)

United Kingdom, England, Shropshire, Ratlinghope – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Ratlinghope, Shrops., Eng

Parish register printouts of Ratlinghope, Shropshire, England, christenings, 1794-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

United Kingdom, England, Shropshire, Ratlinghope – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Court records, 1547-1699
Author: Manor of Ratlinghope. Court (Shropshire)

United Kingdom, England, Shropshire, Ratlinghope – Schools ( 1 )
School log book, 1898-1919
Author: Ratlinghope Board School (Shropshire)

Poll Books

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.

Bishop’s Castle Polling District

Ratlinghope, Parish of

348 Cooke Thomas

349 Davies Thomas

350 Fowler George

351 Fowler Richard

352 Groves William

353 Harrop Jonah, see 2842

354 Hodges James

355 Jones Thomas

356 Kirkham Samuel

357 Munslow John, jun., dead

358 Munslow Richard

359 Partridge Thomas

360 Preece Robert

361 Scott John Charles Addyes

Directory Transcriptions

Cassey Shropshire Directory 1871

Ratlinghope is a parish, comprising the townships of Stilt and Gatten, four miles west from Church Stretton station, and 172 from London, in the Southern division of the county, Bishop’s Castle division of Purslow hundred, Clun union, and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. Margaret is a small stone building, consisting of nave and small tower with two bells. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £68, in the gift of John Charles Adyss Scott, Esq. J. C. A. Scott, Esq., and M. W. H. Harrods, Esq., are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The yearly value of the charities is £1 8s. The soil is sandy and clay; sub-soil, rocky. Gross estimated rental of the parish, to £2,773; rateable value, £2,426. The area of the parish is 3,690 acres of land; the population in 1861 was 285, in a wild and lonely country, the approach to which from Church Stretton is across the Longmynd range of hills, and during the winter season is frequently impassable.

Stitt and Gatten are 10 miles south-west from Shrewsbury. At Gatten there are copper mines. There are two charities, one of £20 a year, and another of £10, which are annually distributed to the poor, the former on Holy Thursday, the latter on St. Thomas’s Day.

Letters are received through Shrewsbury.

Ratlinghope
Cook Thomas, farmer, The Coppice
Davies Thomas, farmer
Elison Hannah, farmer, Coates
Gwilliam Benjamin, farmer, Rock farm
Hodges James, miller and brick maker
Jones Thomas, farmer, Manor house
Munslow William, farmer, Far Dronford
Partridge Thomas, Bridges, & blacksmith
Pinches Ann, farmer, Marsh
Sutton John, farmer, Belmore
Wardman John, farmer, Near Dronford

Gatten
Kirkham Cornelius, farmer, Far Gatten
Kirkham James, farmer
Munslow John, farmer
Slater George, farmer

Stitt
Nottley Rev. William G. C.
Fowler George, farmer
Groves William, farmer
Pinches Samuel, farmer

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

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