Shropshire journal
(Periodical)

Quarterly

Quarterly.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (April 1990) - vol. 3 no. 4 (Jan 1993)

Editor-in-chief: Reuben Elmore Stivers; Acquisitions editor: Carol Coyle Poundstone.

Publication ceased with vol. 3 no. 4 (Jan 1993).

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

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Shropshire (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England and Wales. Some allied families came from Germany and Ireland. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Reverend St. John Shropshire (d. 1718), who probably came from Marlborough, Wiltshire, and was probably the first Shropshire to immigrate to 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, his family and other 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.

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.