Shropshire Marriages

Each record comprises a transcript and a colour image of the original parish register of the marriage.

The amount of information included varies, but the Shropshire marriage records usually include the following information about your ancestor:

• Full names of the bride and groom

• Ages of the couple

• Home parishes of the bride and groom

• Date of marriage

Later records may also include additional details. These may not always be transcribed, but you may be able to see them on the scanned image of the original record. You might uncover:

• Names of the witnesses to the marriage (often family members)

• Names of the fathers of the bride and groom

• Occupations of the groom

• Occupations of the father of both the bride and the groom

• Previous marital condition, such as 'bachelor', 'spinster' or 'widower'

This record set comprises almost 535,600 marriages in Shropshire, England.These records date from 1538 to 1900.

These records cover and can be searched by the following denominations:

• Anglican

• Methodist

• Baptist

• Unitarian

• United Reform Church

• Congregational

The vast majority of the records are Anglican, which remains the largest denomination in Britain today.

The second largest set is the Methodist, which is the fourth largest Christian church in Britain today.

The Baptist church is part of the Congregationalist Polity, a system of church governance in which each local church congregation is autonomous.

The Unitarian movement, a reform movement, became widespread in the Church of England in the seventeenth century.

The United Reform Church is one of the smaller mainstream denominations, and is also involved in the reform movement.

The Congregational church changed in the middle of the nineteenth century from isolated meeting houses into a network of thriving chapels, while still retaining its independence.

The Society of Friends emerged as a dissenting Christian organisation in England during the English Civil War.

Marriage records are an essential part of researching your family history. There are records where the parents of the bride and groom are listed, and these are often the key to finding out the names of the generation before.

Occasionally, ages of the couple may be listed as "full" rather than as a figure. This was a customary way of noting that they were over the required age of 21. If the bride or groom was under the age of 21, “with consent of parents” is noted in the record.

Salop is the old name for the West Midlands county of Shropshire. The county town is Shrewsbury. It was renamed Shropshire by order of the county council in 1980.

These records belong to the Shropshire Collection, a unique set of records spanning baptisms, banns, marriages and burials, which provides details of the history of Shropshire and its people.

These records are from the diocese of Shropshire; note that dioceses can cross county borders. Shropshire borders Wales, and there are a number of records from Montgomeryshire in Wales in these records.

Abdon

Acton Burnell

Acton Scott

Adderley

Alberbury

Albrighton (Shifnal)

Albrighton (Shrewsbury)

Alveley

Annscroft

Ashford Bowdler

Ashford Carbonell

Astley

Astley Abbots

Aston Botterell

Atcham

Badger

Barrow

Baschurch

Battlefield

Bayston Hill

Beckbury

Bedstone

Benthall

Berrington

Betton Strange

Betws-Y-Crwyn

Bicton

Billingsley

Bishop's Castle

Bitterley

Bolas Magna

Boningale

Bridgnorth, St Leonard

Bridgnorth, St Mary Magdalene

Bromfield

Broseley

Broughton

Bucknell

Buildwas

Burford - 1st Portion (Boraston & Nash)

Burford - 2nd Portion (Whitton)

Burford - 3rd Portion (St Mary)

Burwarton

Calverhall

Cardeston

Cardington

Caynham

Chelmarsh

Cheswardine

Chetton

Chetwynd

Child's Ercall

Chirbury

Church Aston

Church Preen

Church Pulverbatch

Churchstoke

Church Stretton

Claverley

Clee St Margaret

Cleeton St Mary

Cleobury Mortimer

Cleobury North

Clive

Clun and Bryn

Clunbury

Clungunford

Coalbrookdale

Cockshutt

Cold Weston

Condover

Coreley

Cound

Cressage

Criftins

Cruckton (Chapelry Of Pontesbury)

Culmington

Dawley Magna

Dawley Parva

Diddlebury

Ditton Priors

Donington

Donnington Wood

Drayton In Hales

Dudleston

Easthope

Eaton Constantine

Eaton Under Heywood

Edgmond

Edgton

Edstaston

Ellesmere

Eyton On The Wealdmoors

Farlow

Fitz

Ford

Frodesley

Glazeley With Deuxhill

Great Ness

Great Wollaston and Middletown

Greete

Grinshill

Habberley

Hadley

Hadnall

Halford

Hanwood

Harley

Hengoed

High Ercall

Highley

Hinstock

Holdgate

Hope

Hope Bagot

Hope Bowdler

Hopesay

Hopton Cangeford

Hopton Castle

Hordley

Hughley

Hyssington

Ightfield

Ironbridge

Jackfield

Kemberton

Kenley

Ketley (Red Lake)

Kinlet

Kinnerley

Knockin

Knowbury

Kynnersley

Lawley

Lee Brockhurst

Leebotwood

Leighton

Leighton (Chirbury)

Lilleshall

Linley

Little Drayton

Little Ness

Little Wenlock

Llanfair Waterdine

Llanyblodwell

Llanymynech

Longden On Tern

Longford

Longnor

Loppington

Ludford

Ludlow

Lydbury North

Lydham

Madeley

Maesbrook

Mainstone

Malinslee (Dawley Nova)

Melverley

Meole Brace

Middleton In Chirbury

Middleton Scriven

Milson

Monkhopton

Montford

More

Moreton Corbet

Moreton Say

Much Wenlock

Munslow

Myddle

Myndtown

Neen Savage

Neen Sollars

Neenton

Newport

Newtown (Wem)

Norbury

Norton In Hales

Oakengates

Oldbury

Onibury

Oswestry, Holy Trinity

Oswestry, St Oswald's

Petton

Pitchford

Pontesbury

Prees

Preston Gubbalds

Preston On The Weald Moors

Priorslee

Quatford

Quatt

Ratlinghope

Richard's Castle

Rodington

Rushbury

Ruyton Xi Towns

Ryton, Shifnal

Sarn

Selattyn

Shawbury

Sheinton

Shelton and Oxon

Shelve

Sherriffhales

Shifnal

Shipton

Shrawardine

Shrewsbury, All Saints

Shrewsbury, Holy Cross (The Abbey)

Shrewsbury, Holy Trinity

Shrewsbury, St Alkmund's

Shrewsbury, St Chad's

Shrewsbury, St George's

Shrewsbury, St Julian's

Shrewsbury, St Mary's

Shrewsbury, St Michael's

Sibdon Carwood

Sidbury

Silvington

Smethcott

Snead

St George's

St Martin's (Weston Rhyn Tithe Map)

Stanton Lacy

Stanton Long

Stanton Upon Hine Heath

Stapleton

Stirchley

Stockton

Stoke On Tern

Stoke St Milborough

Stokesay

Stottesdon

Stowe

Sutton

Sutton Maddock

Tasley

Tibberton

Tilstock

Tong

Trefonen

Trelystan (Chirbury), County Of Powys

Tugford

Uffington

Uppington

Upton Cressett

Upton Magna

Waters Upton

Wellington, All Saints

Wellington, Christ Church

Welshampton

Wem

Wentnor

West Felton

Westbury

Weston Lullingfield

Weston Rhyn

Weston Under Redcastle

Wheathill and Loughton

Whitchurch

Whittington

Whixall

Willey

Wistanstow

Withington

Wombridge

Woodcote Chapelry

Woolstaston

Woore

Worfield

Worthen

Wrockwardine

Wrockwardine Wood

Wroxeter

Market Drayton Circuit

Shrewsbury - Albert St

Shrewsbury, Castlefields

Shrewsbury, St John's Hill

St. George’s

Shrewsbury, Claremont

Whitchurch

Shrewsbury

Maesbury

Weston Rhyn, Quinta