Hyssington, Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Family History Guide

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Hyssington is an Ancient Parish mostly in Montgomeryshire.

Alternative names: Hissington

Other places in the parish include: Mucklewick.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1701

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Boundary Changes:

24 Mar 1884 was reduced to enlarge Shelve Ancient Parish
01 Apr 1933 was abolished to enlarge Church Stoke Ancient Parish

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Hyssington

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HYSSINGTON, a township in Montgomeryshire, and a parish partly also in Salop, but all in the district of Clun. The township lies contiguous to Salop, 3½ miles N by W of Bishops-Castle r. station, and 6 ESE of Montgomery. Acres, 1,832. Real property, £1,609. Pop., 284. Houses, 58. The parish includes, within Salop, the township of Mucklewick; and comprises 2,382 acres. Post town, Bishops-Castle, Shropshire. Pop., 341. Houses, 70. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Snead, in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £248. Patron, the Rev. R. E. Owen. The church stands within the precincts of a ruined castle, and is pretty good.

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

Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824

Hissington. A parish partly in the hundred of Purslow, and partly in Montgomery hundred, in the county of Montgomery. The Church is in Montgomeryshire. The Shropshire part of Hissington, the township of Mucklewick, contains 53 inhabitants. 6 miles south-east of Montgomery. 3 ½ miles north-west by north 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

Mucklewick

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Mucklewick, a township in Hyssington parish, Salop; near Stiper Stones, 5½ miles N of Bishops-Castle. Acres, 550. Pop., 57. Houses, 12.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

MUCKLEWICK, a township, in the parish of Hyssington, union of Clun, hundred of Chirbury, S. division of Salop; containing 69 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Mucklewick, co. Salop.
P. T. Montgomery (163) 3 m. Pop. 53.
A township in the parish of Hyssington and hundred of Cherbury.

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

Shropshire Gazetteer 1824

Mucklewick. A township in the parish of Hissington, and in the lower division of the hundred of Chirbury. 12 houses, 53 inhabitants.

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

FamilySearch

Wales, Montgomeryshire, Hyssington – Cemeteries ( 2 )

Monumental inscriptions in the parish churchyard of Hyssington, Montgomeryshire Author: Price, Marilyn A.; Powys Family History Society

Parish of Hyssington memorial inscriptions : Parish church of St. Etheldreda, the Marsh church, Gritt Methodiist chapel, Hyssington Methodist chapel & village inscription Author: Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society

Wales, Montgomeryshire, Hyssington – Census ( 1 )

Census returns for Hyssington, 1841-1891 Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Wales, Montgomeryshire, Hyssington – Church records ( 2 )

Bishop’s transcripts for Hyssington, 1660-1870 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hyssington (Montgomeryshire)

Parish of Hyssington : register of baptisms, burials & marriages, 1598-1988 Author: Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society

Poll Books

Mucklewick, 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.

Bishop’s Castle Polling District

Mucklewick, Township of

301 Bailey John

302 Everall Thomas

303 Llewellin William, see 2825

304 Mellings William

305 Owen Richard Evan

306 Powell Jeremiah, dead, see 3252

Administration

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