Place:Hereford All Saints, Herefordshire, England

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NameHereford All Saints
TypeParish (ancient)
Coordinates52.056436°N 2.717569°W
Located inHerefordshire, England
See alsoWebtree Hundred, Herefordshire, Englandhundred of which the parish was a part
Hereford, Herefordshire, Englandcity and municipal borough of which it was part
The parish of Hereford All Saints served the north-central part of the city of Hereford and was responsible for recording baptisms, marriages and burials within the parish and between 1837 and 1932 for registering births, marriages and deaths on behalf of the civil authorities of the area.

It was created as both an ecclesiastical parish and a civil parish in 1850 and was abolished as a civil parish in 1932 when it was absorbed into the civil parish of Hereford.

Parish Records exist from 1813, but Bishops' Transcripts exist from 1639, so the earlier Parish Records appear to be missing.

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Research Tips

  • Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre, Fir Tree Lane, Rotherwas, Hereford HR2 6LA is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for Herefordshire are stored. The Archives Centre has a website where the index to the archives (and also the wills catalog) can be searched. One item in the catalog is List of all Herefordshire parish register and bishops transcripts holdings which is a PDF file with information provided in an old version of Excel.

Online sources which may also be helpful:

  • GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
  • A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
  • The FamilySearch Wiki for Herefordshire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
  • A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
  • Unfortunately, only one volume on Herefordshire has been published in the Victoria County History series. British History Online have produced a series of Ordnance Survey first edition maps for the county which may be helpful for mid-nineteenth century inquiries
  • Ancestry.co.uk lists its collections of Herefordshire genealogical material.
  • FindMyPast collections of historical records can be searched for Herefordshire. They have collections of parish records for the pre-1837 period.