Churchstoke Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Family History Guide

Churchstoke is an Ancient Parish partly in Shropshire and partly in Montgomeryshire.

Other places in the parish include: Bacheldre, Lower Hopton, Upper Hopton, Weston-Madoc, Hurdley, and Mellington in Montgomery, and the townships of Brompton and Rhiston in Salop.

Parish church: Originally dedicated to St. Mary, now dedicated to St. Nicholas.

Parish registers begin: 1558

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist and Primitive Methodist.

Parishes adjacent to Churchstoke

• Chirbury
• Bacheldre
• Mellington
• Caeliber Isaf
• Weston Madoc
• Montgomery

Historical Descriptions

Churchstoke

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHURCH-STOKE, a township in the district and county of Montgomery; and a parish in the district of Montgomery, and counties of Montgomery and Salop. The township lies on Offa’s dyke and the river Camlet-near the Oswestry and Newtown railway, 3¼ miles SE of Montgomery; and has a post office under Shrewsbury. Acres, 1,560. Real property, £1,939. Pop., 1,369. Houses, 283. The parish contains also the townships of Bacheldre, Lower Hopton, Upper Hopton, Weston-Madoc, Hurdley, and Mellington in Montgomery, and the townships of Brompton and Rhiston in Salop. Acres, 10,547. Real property, £9,314. Pop., 1,545. Houses, 314. The property is much subdivided. Lead ore is found. Traces of British and Roman camps appear. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £151. Patron, the Earl of Powis. The church is good. Charities, £13.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Churchstoke, 4 miles S.E. Montgomery. P. 1527

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

THE SHROPSHIRE GAZETTEER 1824

Church Stoke. A parish partly in Caurse hundred, in the county of Montgomery, partly in Montgomery hundred, county of Montgomery, partly in the lower division of the hundred of Chirbury. The whole of the parish contains 1,338 inhabitants. The Shropshire part contains 34 houses, 197 inhabitants. 5 ½ miles north-west of Bishopscastle.

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

Brompton

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Brompton, co. Salop.

P. T. Montgomery (108) 3m. Pop. 197.

A township with Reston [sic], in the parish of Church Stoke and hundred of Chorbury.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

THE SHROPSHIRE GAZETTEER 1824

Brompton. A township in the parish of Church Stoke, and in the upper division of the hundred of Chirbury. 6 ½ miles north-west of Bishopscastle.

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

Riston

THE SHROPSHIRE GAZETTEER 1824

Riston. A township in the parish of Church Stoke, and in the upper division of the hundred of Chirbury. 6 miles north-west of Bishopscastle.

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

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Parish Records

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Poll Books

Brompton and Rhiston Poll Book of the Election, July 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

Brompton & Rhiston — Townships of

108 Barrs Thomas

109 Bell James, Clerk

110 Blaney Richard

111 Blaney David

112 Browne Browne Thomas

113 Davies William

114 Groves Samuel

115 Hammond David

116 Humphreys Richard Smith

117 James Thomas

118 Jones John

119 Lewis John

120 Lewis Richard

121 Pryce Cornelius

122 Richards Thomas

123 Shuker John

124 Williams Stephen

125 Wilding Charles

Directories

Brompton and Rhiston Cassey Shropshire Directory 1871

Brompton and Rhiston form a township in the Southern division of this county, belonging to the parish of Church Stoke, which is in Montgomeryshire, in the incorporation of Montgomery and Pool, and hundred of Chirbury . The population in 1861 was 176; area, 1,160 acres, rateable value, £1,156.
Letters received from Church Stoke.

Brompton.
Bloxsome Rev. Henry John
Barrs Mary Belfield (Mrs); farmer, Brompton hall
Blaney Richard, farmer, Ditches
Davies Ed., farmer. Upper Penyllan
Davis William, farmer and miller
Evans Edward, blacksmith
Hammond David, farmer, Pentre Hayling
Jones Abraham, farmer, Little Brompton
Richards Thomas, Blasé Bell Inn, and farmer

Rhiston.
Blamey Jane, farmer, Gwarthlow
Groves Samuel, farmer Rockley
James Thomas, farmer
Jones John, farmer, Cae prior
Lewis John, farmer, Gwarthlow

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

Administration

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