The Shropshire papers : a compilation of the newsletters and journals of the Shropshire Society
(Bound Periodical)

A compilation and edited version of three periodicals by the Shropshire Society, including volumes 1-6 (1984-1990) of "The Society of Shropshires newsletter" and the "International Society of Shropshires," and volumes 1-3 (1990-1993) of the "Shropshire journal." Issues are complete and arranged in chronological order, but the information therein was edited and somewhat rearranged for this compilation. This revised edition is in one bound volume consisting of 410 pages.

Editor: Reuben Elmore Stivers and Catherine Cullen King.

Indexed.

The year for vol. 2 no. 4 (Jan 1992) was misprinted as 1994.

Shropshire families originated in England and Wales. Some focus is on (but not limited to) the descendants of Reverend St. John Shropshire (d. 1718), who probably came from Marlborough, Wiltshire, and was probably the first Shropshire ancestor to come 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 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.

,Changed call number. Please re-label as Family History, 929.27305 Sh87sp, and return it to the shelves.