Stottesdon, Shropshire Family History Guide
Stottesdon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire. Farlow is a chapelry of Stottesdon.
Alternative names: Stottesden
Other places in the parish include: Kingswood and Button Oak, Kingswood, Lowe, Newton, Northwood, Oreton, Overton, Pickthorne, Prescott, Stottesden, Diddlewick and Hinton, Walton, Walton, Prescott and Bagginswood, Wrickton, Wrickton, Newton, Overton and Walkerslow, Bardley, Bardley and Harcourt, Chorley, Chorley and Northwood, Dudlick, Harcourt, Hinton, Ingardine and the Lowe, Ingwardine, and Kingswood and Buttonoak.
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1565
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
Table of Contents
Parishes adjacent to Stottesdon
- Billingsley
- Neenton
- Chetton
- Kinlet
- Neen Savage
- Silvington
- Sidbury
- Farlow
- Doddington
- Wheathill
- Aston Botterell
- Middleton Scriven
Historical Descriptions
Stottesdon
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STOTTESDEN, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Salop. The township lies 5¾ miles N of Cleobury-Mortimer r. station, and has a post-office under Bewdley. The parish contains also 16 other townships and Farlow chapelry; and comprises 11,443 acres. Real property, £9,317; of which £100 are in mines, £100 in quarries, and £60 in lime-works. Pop., 1,518. Houses, 305. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £676. Patron, the Duke of Cleveland. The church is good. The p. curacy of Farlow is a separate benefice. The sub-district contains also 5 other parishes and a chapelry; and is in Cleobury-Mortimer district. Acres, 24,823. Pop., 2,790. Houses, 553. The hundred consists of Chelmarsh and Cleobury divisions. Acres, 84,158. Pop., 12,218. Houses, 2,503.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Dudlick
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Dudlick. A township in the parish of Stottesden, and in the Cleobury division of the hundred of Stottesden. 5 miles north north-west of Cleobury Mortimer.
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
Harcourt
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Harcourt. A township in the parish of Stottesden, and in the Cleobury division of the hundred of Stottesden.
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
Overton
Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Overton. A township in the parish of Stottesden, and in the Cleobury division of the hundred of Stottesden. 3 ½ miles north of Cleobury Mortimer.
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
Parish Records
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Poll Books
Stottesden, 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.
Cleobury Mortimer Polling District
Stottesden— Parish of
1667 Alltree John
1668 Amies Edward
1669 Amies Edward
1670 Bakewell Thomas
1671 Barker William
1672 Beddoes Thomas
1673 Beddoe Edward
1674 Bikin Benjamin
1675 Bodenham William
1676 Boyce Samuel
1677 Bridgwater James
1678 Botfield Richard
1679 Brookes John
1680 Brookes William
1681 Brown William
1682 Bytheway Edward
1683 Clay George, see 737
1684 Cleeton Edward
1685 Crump Thomas
1686 Cook Thomas
1687 Coles William
1688 Deverall William
1689 Ducie John
1690 Farmer George
1691 Fletcher Thomas
1692 Freer Thomas
1693 Gardener Robert, 2796
1694 Gittins Job
1695 Gittins William
1696 Gittins John
1697 Gregory Thomas
1698 Harding Thomas
1699 Harris Samuel
1700 Heynes Robert Baylis
1701 Hughes William
1702 Humphreys John
1703 Hyde Thomas
1704 Instone Edward
1705 Jordan George
1706 Jordan Joseph
1707 Jordin George
1708 Jones James
1709 Jones Joseph
1710 Jones Thomas
1711 Jones George
1712 Jones John
1713 Keay William
1714 Keay James
1715 Lane James
1716 Lane Samuel
1717 Lateward John
1718 Lateward Robert Lambert
1719 Leighton Daniel
1720 Lea Turner Joshua
1721 Lowe Thomas
1722 Lloyd Moses
1723 Maddison Charles John, see 1549
1724 Medlicott William
1725 Meredith John
1726 Norgrove John
1727 Oakeley William
1728 Oliver William
1729 Owen Benjamin
1730 Page Edwin
1731 Page Thomas
1732 Page William
1733 Page William
1734 Panting Robert
1735 Parsons Cecil
1736 Pearson William, see 1533
1737 Pearson John, see 1532
1738 Preston Thomas
1739 Pallet Charles
1740 Price George Henry
1741 Powell William
1742 Robinson George, see 3817, 3818
1743 Reynolds John
1744 Rogers Thomas
1745 Simmonds George
1746 Tennant Hamilton
1747 Turner George Thomas
1748 Trow Thomas
1749 Tolly Richard
1750 Wakefield, The Rev. John, see 3829
1751 Walker George
1752 Wellings Benjamin
1753 Woodward Robert
1754 Woodward Thomas
1755 Wyer Richard
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Cleobury Mortimer
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Hereford
- Rural Deanery: Stottesdon
- Poor Law Union: Cleobury Mortimer
- Hundred: Stottesdon
- Province: Canterbury