To All Our Friends and Customers.
We have now resumed work in Oswestry Library and will be present on Monday mornings from 10:00 to 12:00 and Friday afternoons from 13:30 to 16:00 to meet with you if you wish to come in.
Welcome to the home page of Oswestry Family and Local History Group. We are a group of approved volunteers, formed and hosted by Oswestry Library in Shropshire, UK. We are interested in family history and the local history of Oswestry and the neighbouring Shropshire/Welsh border region. To read more about the group, see Contact us
Individuals are welcome to utilise and copy website content. However, groups and organisations may not utilise or copy website content without our permission.
Using our website
Roll of Honour helps you search for servicemen from Oswestry and the surrounding area mentioned in the Oswestry & Border Counties Advertizer’s Half Penny War Reports August 1914-January 1915.
Births, Marriages & Deaths (BMD) allows you to search various newspapers covering Oswestry, Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire between 1863 – 1877. (Cambrian News 1870, 1876 & 1877, Merionethshire Standard 1865, 1866 & 1868, & Merionethshire Herald 1863 now complete.) Please don’t use the filter option for Salopian & Montgomeryshire Post
Research Resources provides helpful hints for your own family/local history research, including details of useful websites. Also lists of Local History Folders, Parish Records & Monumental Inscriptions, Converted Media and Parish Packs available in Oswestry Library. Copies of the Monumental Inscriptions for St Michaels, West Felton & St Chads, Haughton are held on this website. A copy of the Oswestry War Memorial Booklet. A file containing the Drawings of Mr Stanley Leighton from Sweeney Hall. The Story of Queens Park School, Oswestry. Documents containing information about Oswestry & Welsh Border area Crimean War Veterans.
Photo Albums of Oswestry and the surrounding area. Over 2500 Photographs/Slides/Negatives/Prints/Post Cards/WWI Newspaper Articles/WWI People.
Articles gives access to items of local and family interest. Some are about local people of national significance.
Group Projects provides information about projects we have completed
Contact Us provides information about our help sessions and a form to help you make comments and ask questions should you wish. We will do our best to answer.
Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge the help and support given to the group by Oswestry Library and its staff.
Oswestry Library’s Local History Centre holds the second largest collection of local studies material in the county after Shropshire Archives, including a Substantial Welsh Collection.
Details of Historic Documents/Books held in Shropshire Libraries/Archives can be searched for at: Shropshire History
Oswestry Library has a new collection of Cambrian Railway books. Here is information regarding it. Cambrian Railway Link & Info