PRIORS HARDWICK

As with Priors Marston, the village is so named as the manor belonged to the Priory at Coventry. It is very near the Warwickshire border about six miles south east of Southam. There are a number of old houses around the village green, and 'The Butchers Arms' dates from 1562.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Kington. UNION: Southam

ADJOINING PARISHES: Upper Radbourne (extra-parochial), Napton-on-the-Hill, Priors Marston, Bodington, Stoneton in Northamptonshire, Wills Pastures.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1661-1887 Marriages: 1662-1834 Burials: 1662-1991 Banns 1823-1895

Bishop's Transcripts : 1662-1846 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1775-1875, Marriages: 1754-1834. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: CMB 1662-1812 SoG
Marriages: 1662-1812 PHIL 1 Marriages: 1662-1675 BOYD MISC , SoG

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

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 SoG
1851 BMSGH SI v.14 SoG , BIR
1851 vIX (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP : BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1662-1837
Pallot 1790-1812

MANORIAL RECORDS: Priory of Coventry inquisition of lands naming tenants 1280.

DEEDS: Leases, deeds and extracts from wills intermittently - 1600-1888.

OTHER SOURCES: Parish magazines 1883-1933.
Many emigrants had assistance with their passage from the parish under the provisions of the 1834 Poor Law. The records, which are normally lists of emigrants giving occupations and destinations, are arranged by counties and Poor Law Unions - PRO Class MH12. Under this scheme six emigrants from this parish went to South Australia in 1844.


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]