Sources for HINSTOCK

This guide gives a brief introduction to the variety of sources available for the parish of Hinstock at Archives.

Printed sources:.

General works - These may also be available at Newport library

Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society Shropshire Magazine Trade Directories which give a history of the town, main occupants and businesses, 1828-1941 Victoria County Parish Packs Monumental Inscriptions

Small selection of more specific texts (search http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk for a more comprehensive list) JG22.3 Happy days and heartbreak days: a farmer’s son relives his 1920s childhood – V W Dilworth q JG64 A Hinstock miscellany – R B Lees and M Strain q JG66.9 William Turner, photographer and blacksmith, a selection of his pictures of Hinstock q JG97 A history of Hinstock Church

St Oswald’s church, Hinstock from www.secretshropshire.org.uk website ref 6009/103

Sources on microfiche or film:

Parish and non-conformist church registers

Baptisms Marriages / Banns Burials St Oswalds church 1695-1876 1695-1757 & 1813-1837 1695-1866 1813-1933 1813-1936 transcribed 1813-1936 transcribed transcribed only only Banns – 1755-182 Methodist records - see Methodist Circuit Records (Reader’s Ticket needed)

Census returns 1841, 1851(indexed), 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 Census returns for the whole country to 1911 can be looked at on the Ancestry website

Maps Ordnance Survey maps 25” to the mile and 6 “to the mile, c1880, c1901 (OS reference: old series XXIII.7 new series SJ 6926 Tithe map of c 1840 and apportionment (list of owners/occupiers)

Newspapers Chronicle, 1772 onwards (NB from 1950 as originals only – Reader’s Ticket required) Shropshire Star, 1964 onwards

Archives:

To see these sources you need a Shropshire Archives Reader's Ticket.

P131 Hinstock parish records

School Records ED1564/133-136 Plans for school and master’s house 19th century ED2699/39/25 Manager’s returns

Records of Local Authorities and Institutions PL7 Union Workhouse records - see http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk for catalogue Q Quarter Sessions - see http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk for catalogue

Estate records - See www.shropshirehistory.org.uk for catalogue 327 Corbet of Adderley estate records - see http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk for catalogue 4238 Photocopy map of Hinstock Hall & Estate – no date 167 Manorial records , Loppington and Hinstock 16th – 19th century (index in Search Room under ‘Barnard, Lord’) See www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr for manorial records for Hinstock and Wem Barony

Other records Wills for Shropshire post 1858 (pre 1858 – see Lichfield Diocesan Record Office) Photographs and Postcards And much much more!

Shropshire Archives Castle Gates, Shrewsbury SY1 2AQ, tel 01743 255350, fax 01743 255355 e-mail:[email protected] website: www.shropshirearchives.org.uk