COMPLETED Bridgnorth Parish Registers

[littleem1906]

Hi

I found a website that allows you to read the Shropshire parish registers for most of the parishes. However, I couldn't find the parish registers for Bridgnorth. Is there a way of finding these online? Or would I need to go to the Bridgnorth records office?

Kind regards

Emma

[Mr Gwynne Chadwick]

Emma,

Unlike most other Parishes, the Bridgnorth Parish Registers were not transcribed by the Shropshire Parish Register Society in the early 1900’s. Consequently, you won't find them online or on C.D. The Shropshire Family History Society is involved in a project to transcribe the registers but the envisaged time scale is several years.

The fiche copies of the registers available at Bridgnorth aren't comprehensive and there is only one reader.
I would strongly advise you go to Shrewsbury Archives where the facilities are vastly greater.
The only records at Bridgnorth that aren't available at Shrewsbury are the microfilm copies of the weekly newspaper The Bridgnorth Journal, 1854 to 1957 with some large gaps.

Gwynne
http://www.rafbridgnorth.org.uk/familyhistory/chfamily/booksales.html