Goodrich, Herefordshire Family History Guide

Goodrich is an Ancient Parish in the county of Herefordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Huntsham, Glewston, and Huntisham.

Alternative names: Goderich

Parish church: St. Giles

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1558
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1661

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GOODRICH, or Goderich, a township and a parish in Ross district, Hereford. The township lies on the river Wye, at the verge of the county, 4 miles SSW of Ross town and r. station; has a post office under Ross; and gives the title of Viscount to the Earl of Ripon. The parish includes also the townships of Glewston and Huntisham. Acres, 2,421. Real property, £5,636; of which £38 are in fisheries. Pop., 796. Houses, 175. The property is much subdivided. Goodrich Court is the seat of the Meyricks; was built since 1828, by Dr. Meyrick, the antiquary; is in the style of the period of Edward II.; and contains a rich collection of armour, antiquities, and curiosities. Goodrich Castle, now an imposing ruin, dates from very early times; was long the baronial residence of the Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury; passed to the De Greys, Earls and Dukes of Kent; sustained a siege and dismantlement in the civil wars of Charles I.; went by sale, in 1740, to Admiral Griffin; and descended to the Admiral’s grand-daughter, Mrs. Marriott. It shows distinct traces of restorations and enlargements, from an early period to a comparatively late one; it formed a parallelogram, of 176 feet by 152, flanked with round towers at the angles; and it commands, from its keep, a most enchanting view of the windings of the Wye, and of the circumjacent country, away to the Malvern hills and the Welsh mountains. “Its long and narrow galleries, sally-ports, batteries, vaulted gateways, semicircular towers, fosses, rock-hewn pits, huge buttresses, loop-holes, and machicolations, decorated chapel, ladies’ tower, watch-towers, enormous fire-hearths, warder’s seat, once a gorgeous hall, huge fire-places, great chambers of state, dormitories, garrison-towers, and spacious tables, these, and many other objects, now broken either by time or by war, and mantled with venerable ivy, attest its grandeur and its strength, when, for six centuries at least, it held sway over surrounding districts, and looked down in its magnificence, as it does now in its decay, upon the waters of the beautiful Wye.” A fine bridge across the Wye, erected at a cost of £8,000, gives communication from the parish to Dean Forest. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £354. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is ancient but good; and has a tower and spire. There are a national school, and charities £34. The grandfather of Dean Swift was vicar.

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

Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Biggs Louisa, Goodrich, Herefordshire, shopkeeper, March 24, 1837.

Howells William, Old mill, Goodrich, Herefordshire, miller, May 12, 1840.

Powell Thomas, Oldforge, Goodrich, Herefordshire, corn dealer, July 16. 1822.

Parish Records

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Parish Registers

Goodrich parish registers 1558 – 1884 – Forest of Dean Family History Trust

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Directories

The Post Office Directory Of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and The City Of Bristol 1863

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Administration

County: Herefordshire
Civil Registration District: Ross
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Hereford
Rural Deanery: Archenfield
Poor Law Union: Ross
Hundred: Wormelow
Province: Canterbury

Goodrich, Herefordshire Family History Guide

Adjacent Parishes

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Bankrupts

Parish Records

Parish Registers

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The Parish Registers of Ollerton in the County of Nottingham 1592 to 1812

The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of York

Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages Vol 16

The Baptismal, Marriage, and Burial Registers of the Cathedral Church of Christ and Blessed Mary the Virgin at Durham, 1609-1896