Place:Sutton, Herefordshire, England

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NameSutton
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates52.11°N 2.67°W
Located inHerefordshire, England     (1876 - )
Also located inHereford and Worcester, England     (1974 - 1998)
Herefordshire, England     (1998 - )
See alsoBroxash Hundred, Herefordshire, Englandhundred of which the parish was a part
Sutton St. Michael, Herefordshire, Englandancient parish from which civil parish of Sutton was formed in 1876
Sutton St. Nicholas, Herefordshire, Englandancient parish from which civil parish of Sutton was formed in 1876
Hereford Rural, Herefordshire, Englandrural district 1894-1974
South Herefordshire District, Hereford and Worcester, Englanddistrict municipality 1974-1998
Herefordshire District, Herefordshire, Englandunitary authority since 1998

Sutton was a civil parish formed in 1876 from the adjacent ancient parishes of Sutton St. Michael and Sutton St. Nicholas. (Source:FamilySearch Wiki)

Sutton was considered a civil parish in Hereford Registration District from the start of civil registration in 1837 and is still considered as such today.

Information on Sutton, Sutton St. Michael and Sutton St. Nicholas has been very hard to find.

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.