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Discover your ancestors in baptismal records dating between 1538 and 1900 in almost 325 parishes in Shropshire, England. From these records, uncover the names of your ancestor’s parents, and use this as a key to delve further into your family’s history. Baptism records state the date and place an individual was baptised into a church, and are an essential part of researching your family history. Various denominations are represented in these burial records such as, Anglican, Baptist, United Reform Church and Society of Friends (Quakers).

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What can these records tell me?

Each record is a transcript and an image of the original parish register of the baptism.

The amount of information included varies, but the Shropshire Baptism records may include some or all of the following information about your ancestor:

  • Full name of individual being baptised
  • Date of birth
  • Date of baptism
  • Place of baptism
  • Names of parents
  • Occupation of parents
  • Place of residence
  • Religious denomination

Discover more about Shropshire Baptisms

The record set comprises 1,133,580 baptisms from the diocese of Shropshire, England.

These records date from 1538 to 1900.

Baptism records state the date and place an individual was baptised into a church, and are an essential part of researching your family history. In most records, the parents of the individual being baptised are included, and these are often the key to finding out the names of the previous generation.

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.

Anglican registers - parishes

Abdon

Acton Burnell

Acton Scott

Adderley

Alberbury

Albrighton (Shifnal)

Albrighton (Shrewsbury)

Alveley

Annscroft

Ash (Magna)

Ashford Bowdler

Ashford Carbonell

Astley

Astley Abbots

Aston Botterell

Atcham

Badger

Barrow

Baschurch

Battlefield

Bayston Hill

Beckbury

Bedstone

Benthall

Berrington

Betws-Y-Crwyn

Bicton

Billingsley

Bishop's Castle

Bitterley

Bolas Magna

Boningale

Bourton

Bridgnorth, St Leonard

Bridgnorth, St Mary Magdalene

Bromfield

Broseley

Broughton

Bucknell

Buildwas

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

Church Stretton

Churchstoke

Claverley

Clee St Margaret

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

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

Hopton Wafers

Hordley

Hughley

Hyssington

Ifton Heath, Moors, Overton and Cloy

Ightfield

Ironbridge

Jackfield

Kemberton

Kenley

Ketley (Red Lake)

Kinlet

Kinnerley

Knockin

Knowbury

Kynnersley

Lawley

Leaton

Lee Brockhurst

Leebotwood

Leighton

Lilleshall

Linley

Little Drayton

Little Ness

Little Wenlock

Llanfair Waterdine

Llanyblodwell

Llanymynech

Longden (Chapelry Of Pontesbury)

Longden On Tern

Longford

Longnor

Loppington

Loughton (Chapelry Of Chetton)

Ludford

Ludlow

Lydbury North

Lydham

Madeley

Madeley (Fletcher)

Maesbrook

Mainstone

Malinslee (Dawley Nova)

Melverley

Meole Brace

Middleton In Chirbury

Middleton Scriven

Milson

Monkhopton

Montford

More

Moreton Corbet

Moreton Say

Moreton (Oswestry)

Much Wenlock

Munslow

Myddle

Neen Savage

Neen Sollars

Neenton

Newcastle On Clun

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

Rowton

Rowton (Chapelry Of High Ercall)

Rushbury

Ruyton Xi Towns

Ryton, Shifnal

Sambrook

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 Giles

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

Trench

Tugford

Uffington

Uppington

Upton Cressett

Upton Magna

Waters Upton

Wellington, All Saints

Wellington, Christ Church

Welshampton

Wem

Wentnor

West Felton

Westbury

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

Yockleton

Methodist registers - locations

Bishop's Castle & Clun Circuit

Bridgnorth

Clun

Dawley - Brandlee

Dawley - Finger Road

Dawley – Lightmoor

Dawley Old Park (Bethesda)

Dawley Parva

Hadley - Horton

Hadley - Ketley Central

Hadley New

Ironbridge (Madeley Wood)

Ketley Bank

Ketley, Mossy Green

Lawley, Lawley Bank

Lawley, Spring Village

Market Drayton Circuit

Minsterley Circuit

Oswestry, Ellesmere and Chirk Circuit

Shrewsbury Circuit

Shropshire South Circuit

Shropshire South Circuit (Ludlow)

Telford Circuit (Shifnal)

Telford Circuit (Stirchley)

Telford Circuit (Wrockwardine Wood)

Telford North Circuit

Telford North Circuit (Wrockwardine Wood)

Telford South Circuit (Dawley)

Wellington, New

Wem & Prees Green Circuit

Weston Rhyn (Chirk Bank)

Whitchurch Circuit

Whittington, Mile End

Wombridge (Beveley)

Baptist registers - locations

Shrewsbury, Claremont

Minsterley (Snailbeach)

United Reformed Church registers - locations

Maesbury

Shrewsbury

Congregational registers - locations

Bridgnorth, Stoneway

Oswestry

Independent Calvinist Congregational registers - locations

Church Pulverbatch

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