DIOCESE: Worcester. HUNDRED: Kington. UNION: Shipston-upon-Stour
ADJOINING PARISHES: Combroke, Kineton, Oxhill, Pillerton Hersey, Wellesbourne.
Parish Registers: Christenings: 1539-1923 Marriages: 1539-1946 Burials: 1570-1834 Banns 1754-1782, 1792 1814
Bishop's Transcripts : Begin 1612 WOR
IGI: Christenings: 1538-1885, Marriages: 1538-1895. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)
REGISTER COPIES:
Marriages: 1538-1812
PHIL
1
Marriages: 1538-1812 Marriages: 1651-1675
BOYD MISC ,
SoG
Christenings: 1876-1923
Marriages: 1874-1946 Banns 1884-1921
COV
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS:
Church and Yard
STR
Churchyard SoG
PROBATE RECORDS: WOR Wills and Probate inventories 1541/1542, 1828 WAR
CENSUS RETURNS: All
WAR
1851
BMSGH SI v.13
SoG ,
BIR
1851 vIV
(RR) ,
SoG
1881
BCP ,
BMSGH(PS)
INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1538-1837
Pallot 1790-1812
Poor Law
c1690-1860
MANORIAL RECORDS: 1624 (see also Oversley)
STR
Court Rolls 1538, Extent c1320,
Plans 1752 and 1771
WAR
OTHER SOURCES: Plan of demesne and moorland and Hale Farm belonging to Charles H.Talbot, Esq., 1766.
Will of William Woodward 1684.
Typescript thesis by Joan Lane on administration of
Poor Law 1713-1822.
The Administration of an Eighteenth Century Warwickshire Parish,
Joan Lane, Butlers Marston, 1973, Dugdale Society, Occasional
Paper No.21
Farm and Cottage Inventories from Butlers Marston 1546-1755,War.Hist.
Vol.1 No.5 (surnames given).
Parish magazine 1886-1893, 1895-1933.
Ward collection drawings.