PACKWOOD

The village is about four miles north east of Henley-in-Arden, and almost part of the built-up area of Knowle and Dorridge. Packwood Hall, now a farm house and of no great age, does have a fine moat. Packwood House is of timber-framed construction and is owned by the National Trust and well worth a visit. It was built in the fifteenth century but enlarged and partly rebuilt last century. It was the home of the Featherston family. The clipped yews, dating from the seventeenth century are a tourist attraction; the grouping is said to represent the Sermon on the Mount. Packwood is now part of the parish of Lapworth.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. A Peculiar of the Memorial Court of Packwood. HUNDRED: Kington. UNION: Solihull

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1668-1880 Marriages: 1671-1890 Burials: 1668-1927 Banns 1784-1799
1851-1936

Bishop's Transcripts : 1813-1835 LIC

IGI: Christenings: 1668-1875, Marriages: 1668-1761 & 1777-1875. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1668-1880, Marriages: 1668-1890, Burials: 1668-1927, Banns 1899-1936

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St.Giles BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: WAR
Printed Index Wills and Admons 1675-1790 ( BRS 7) MS calendar, post-1790 records; WOR

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 61 81 BIR
1851 BMSGH SI v.9 SoG , BIR
1851 vII (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1754-1837
Marriage Bonds and Allegations: 1755-1808 Names of both parties dates and parish but arranged by male surname only. No bondsmen or occupations. (Reference copy SoG )

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1666 STR
1668-1927 WAR
Survey of part of manor 1723.
Abatement of rents to tenants of Kings College, Cambridge 1452-1455.

OTHER SOURCES: The Featherstons of Packwood in the 17th century, M.W.Farr 1968, (Dugdale Occasional Paper).
Plan of Thomas Featherston's estate 1783.
Maps and surveys of estates of W.A. Roberts c1812.
Copy of Will of Samuel Fullard, yeoman 1787.
Packwood House, 1924, reprinted from Country Life, Aug 9 1924.
Packwood House, WWM Dec 1969.
Ward collection drawings.
Featherston family, correspondence 17th-18th centuries BIR
The Story of Packwood, J.J.Betton, (contains a pedigree of the Featherstons, map, extracts from wills, school teachers and list of members of the Association for the Conviction of Felons 1784), 1951. BIR
Cooke, Roberts & Daniels, see Alcester.
See also Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton collection.

[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]