The Society of Shropshires newsletter
(Microfiche)

Roughly three issues per year, with only two issues in 1984.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Sep 1984) - vol. 4 no. 1 (June 1987)

Editor: Reuben Elmore Stivers, with a regular column by Katherine Ann Cullen King.

Publication under this title ceased with vol. 4 no. 1 (June 1987).

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (21 Dec. 2005).

Filmed with this periodical's continuing title: International Society of Shropshires.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Shropshire (and variant spelligs) families who came mainly from England and Wales. Some allied families came from Germany and Ireland. Some focus is on (but not limited to) Reverend St. John Shropshire (d. 1718), who probably came from Marlborough, Wiltshire, and was one of the first Shropshires in America. He was was the son of an inn keeper, Oliver Shropshire. Reverend St. John Shrophsire was a graduate of Oxford, England. He settled in the colony of Virginia around 1694, and was a minister of the Anglican Church at Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia. He moved his large family later to Clark County, Kentucky. In the 1600's-1700's, Shropshires (and variant spellings) lived in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. During the 1800's, some moved to Mexico, and to Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Later descendants also lived in Ontario (Canada), England, Switzerland, and in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Washington D.C., and elsewhere.

Microreproduction of originals published:,Staunton, Virginia. : Society of Shropshires, 1984-1987.,4 v.

The Society of Shropshires was organized in October 1984, and was incorporated in September 1991, in the State of Virginia as the International Society of Shropshires, Limited. It is also known as the Shropshire Society. Its headquarters is in Staunton, Virginia. There is also a Society of Shropshires in England, which was later referred to as the British Branch of the International Society of Shropshires.