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Contents

YR YSTOG / CHURCHSTOKE

• Bibliography
• Census
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Maps
• Public Records

Bibliography

Parish of Churchstoke: Churchstoke cemetary: memorial inscriptions. [S.1.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 1999. 32p

Parish of Churchstoke: Parish Church of St.Nicholas, Churchstoke Wesleyan Methodist Chapel: Old churches to be Methodist ChapelVillage inscriptions, Coed Farm inscription, memorial inscriptions. [S.l.] : Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, 2000. 108p

Census

Victorian Powys for schools site - Census figures for Churchstoke parish 1841-1901

Church History

See John Ball's site Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection for a photograph/data re St Nicholas's Church

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP,   1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Churchstoke parish exc. that part in Salop - statistics; Area 8787 acres; Population 656 males, 627 females, total 1286

• Churchstoke Parish Church              Diocese of Hereford              Attendance - morning 171 + 34 boys and 32 girls, afternoon 66 + 34 boys and 32 girls          Robert More White, Minister
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• Wesleyan Methodist, Churchstoke Village         Attendance - afternoon 30   "This return is for a house used as a place of worship"           Edward Watson, Wesleyan Minister, Welshpool
• Pen y cwm, Bacheldre township, Primitive Methodist               Dwelling house                Attendance - afternoon 27        James Davies, Lay Preacher, Pentre, Churchstoke
• Cwm, Bacheldre township, Primitive Methodist               Dwelling house     Attendance - evening 30              James Davies, Lay Preacher, Pentre, Churchstoke

CHURCHSTOKE, St. Nicholas  1848-1850    - on the Church plans online site

Church of St Nicholas, Churchstoke on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

Wesleyan churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - Churchstoke, Old Churchstoke Primitive Methodist

Church Records

Included townships of Brompton and Rhiston, Shropshire

As a guide only, the principal extant parochial church records for this parish span the dates shown below (as detailed in Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 2000) but exact current holdings should be confirmed with the individual Archives;

• Baptisms 1558-1853; Marriages 1558-1812 ; Burials 1558-1812
  Parish Registers, or copies, for all or part of these dates are held at the Shropshire Archives  
  Bishops Transcripts for various periods are held at the Herefordshire Archives

Description and Travel

Churchstoke Community Council site

Historic Landscape Characterisation - Churchstoke on the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust site

Stone Axes found at Corndon Hill, near Churchstoke - on the People's Collection Wales site

Church Stoke - on Wikipedia

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Yr Ystog / Churchstoke from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
• A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

Maps

Map of Montgomeryshire parishes on Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society's site - shows dioceses

Public Records

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Churchstoke Parish Council records  1744-1929

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