DIOCESE: Worcester. HUNDRED: Kington. UNION: Chipping Norton
Parish Registers: Christenings: 1670-1898 Marriages: 1685-1837 Burials: 1683-1866
Banns 1823-1952
See also Sheldon Chapel under Transcripts.
Bishop's Transcripts : Begin 1608 WOR
IGI: Christenings: 1608-1640
& 1660-1876, Marriages: 1727-1837 and Ebenezer Chapel
Christenings: 1820-1836.
Weston in Long Compton R.C.Church
Christenings: 1763-1784 Widely available;
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REGISTER COPIES:
Marriages: 1608-1812
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Marriages: 1685-1812
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Marriages: 1651-1675
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Baptisms in the Private Chapel
of Sir W. Sheldon 1763-1784
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Bishop's Transcripts
1608-1640,1660-1700
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NONCONFORMIST: Roman Catholic: see Source Material and
C, M & R Vol.2 Quaker see Source Material
Congregational/Independent: Z 1820-1836
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Z 1820-1902 Burials: 1846-1855 WAR
100 Years of Congregationalism in Long Compton and an appreciation of the late John
Roles, S.F. Evans c1920.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Yard
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there is a note 'Stones have been laid flat and even more recent
stones will soon be illegible'.
St. Peter and St. Paul
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PROBATE RECORDS: WOR (A study of 16th and 17th century wills has been made by Shipston Local History Society,I).
CENSUS RETURNS: 1841 81 91
WAR
1881
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INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1608-1681 & 1685-1837
Pallot 1790-1812
Poor Law c.1690-1860
MANORIAL RECORDS: See Warriner collection.
DEEDS: In various family collections. Charity deeds 1631,
1881.
OTHER SOURCES: Warriner of Weston Park, a very extensive
collection of Inclosure and Tithe awards, family papers, accounts
etc, deeds, court rolls etc. Note especially Farm and Estate
Labour account books
1881-20th century and Labourers' Books
1825-1844 which contain names, how employed, wages, days worked
etc.
Business records of G.Phillips & Co. 1801-1803.
Deeds and
papers relating to Sheldon of Weston Park.
Wilmot family/Taylor,
papers.
Plan of Weston (hamlet) c1820, map of parish c1840.
Rent
roll of Earl of Northampton's tenants in Long Compton; other
papers, 1750.
Journal or Autobiography of Sir George Philips (3
vols.) 1938.
The Sheldons, E.A.B.Barnard 1938.
A Prospect of
Weston in Warwickshire, Michael Warriner, 1978.
The Land Where I
Belong, A.Seymour 1968 (the author farmed at Mill Farm, Long
Compton 1939-1960).
Superstition and witchcraft in the nineteenth
century, P.Horn (Cake and Cockhorse, Vol.6 No.5 1976).
Country
Kate, Reminiscences of Life in Long Compton before 1914, Sheila
Stewart 1971.
Long Compton: Through the Lych Gate, Edward
Rainsberry 1969, Roundwood Press.
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