Childs Ercall, Shropshire
Historical Description
Ercall, Childs, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands 4 miles SE of Hodnet station on the G.W.R., and 7 NW of Newport It has a post office under Market Drayton; money order office, Hinstock; telegraph office, Peplow railway station. The parish includes the township of Hungry Hatton. Acreage, 3749; population, 422. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £65 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1879.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Whitchurch | 1935 - 1969 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Shropshire Archives have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Childs Ercall
The register dates from the year 1560.
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael is an ancient building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 3 bells: in 1879 the church was enlarged and restored under the direction of Messrs. Carpenter and Ingelow, of London, when a new north aisle and a chancel were built: the building was new roofed and re-seated, and a new pulpit and organ erected at the cost of the Rev. J. P. Noble, a former vicar.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Childs Ercall from 1935 to 1969 you should search for the Whitchurch Registration District.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Shropshire newspapers online:
- Shrewsbury Chronicle
- Wellington Journal
- Eddowes's Journal, and General Advertiser for Shropshire, and the Principality of Wales
- Ludlow Advertiser
- Salopian Journal
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.