Whixall, Shropshire Family History Guide

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Whixall is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Shropshire, created in 1776 from Prees Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1758

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Whixall Parish Registers

The Register of Prees, Whixall Independent Chapel 1805-1823 is included in Shropshire Parish Registers : Nonconformist and Roman Catholic registers (1903).

Shropshire Parish Registers : Nonconformist and Roman Catholic registers (1903) The PDF includes the registers for Bridgnorth Stoneway Chapel and Bridgnorth Castle Street Baptist Chapel. View Free PDF
Shropshire Parish Registers Nonconformist And Roman Catholic Registers

Whixall Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Whixall. The index includes information from Marriage Licences granted within The Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester V.8 1691-1700

Marriage Licences

The following have been extracted from Marriage Licences granted within The Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester V.8 1691-1700.

1699 May 16 George Burches, of Wixar [Wixhall], co. Salop, Clerk, and Ellen Austin alias Astle, of Burleydam, co. Chester, Spinster. At Burleydam or Moreton.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WHIXHALL, a chapelry, with a village, in Prees parish, Salop; 1½ mile W by N of Prees r. station, and 4 N by E of Wem. It has a post-office under Whitchurch. Pop., 978. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield-Value, £120. Patron, the Vicar of Prees. The church was reported in 1859 as bad. There is an Independent chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Whixall, a chapelry in the parish of Prees, Whitchurch division of the hund. of Bradford, union of Wem, county of Salop ; 4 miles north by east of Wem, near the Ellesmere canal. Living, a perpetual curacy, subordinate to the vicarage of Prees. Here is an Independent church, formed in 1808. A few poor children are here taught on an endowment of £2 per annum. Acreage with the parish. Houses 186. Pop., in 1831, 957.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Administration

  • County: Shropshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wem
  • Probate Court: Court of the Prebend of Prees or Pipe Minor
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Market Drayton
  • Poor Law Union: Wem
  • Hundred: North Bradford
  • Province: Canterbury