RN #162 Shropshire

Much of my JONES family history involves the area in and around Shropshire.  This notebook contains my research regarding this geographic area.

History
     Corrupted from Saxon "Scob-scire" a contraction from "Scrobbes-Byrig-Scyre"
     pre-history tribes (Cornavii/Ordovices)
     rise of Shrewsbury
    the Marches

Civil government
     15 hundreds or districts
     borough and market towns
     parishes

Domesday record
     parts open to settlement 1086
     Welsh controlled area

Oakly Park Collection (Catalogue Ref. 20)
     Fox family of Oakly Park, Bromfield, Shropshire
     Hertbert family of Oakly Park, Bromfield, Shropshire
     Hill family of Hawkstone, Shropshire (Catalogue Ref. 731)
     Wolryche family of Bridnorth (Catalogue Ref. 2922)
     Thornes family of Shropshire (Catalogue Ref. 867, 1488)
     Childe family of Shropshire (Catalogue Ref. 3320)

Calendar of Patent Rolls - Salop  (1434)
        Hereford (1434)

Chronology/Shropshire
     Cyngen (Powys) fl 550s
         capital = Pengwern

JONES surname 1547 - 1703 (English legal records)
     More family of Linley, Shropshire (Catalogue Ref. 1037)

RN #2 Welsh History : Middle Ages

Research notebook #2 deals with Welsh history during the Middle Ages.  It mostly contains articles written about this period.

Welsh Households For the SCA. By Maredudd ap Cynan.

Wales in the Early Middle Ages. By Wendy Davis.

Pattern of Power in Early Wales. By Wendy Davis.

Medieval Wales. By David Walker.

The Archaeology of The Welsh Marches. By S.C. Stanford.

Information gathered from a series of outstanding articles.  Those by Wendy Davies in my opinion are the best source of information for this foundational period in Welsh history.

For a discussion of Welsh genealogy see:  http://welshgenealogy.blogspot.com .