RYTON-ON-DUNSMORE

The village lies about six miles south east of Coventry, cut in half by the busy A45 which leads to the M45 motorway linking with the Marriages: 1 to London. Large car industries are nearby. The church of St.Leonard is one of the oldest Norman churches in the county, and the nave and chancel are little changed since the church was built in 1100 A.D. A mile to the south east is Knightlow Hill where, in a field off the Daventry Road is the fourteenth century 'Wroth Silver' stone. It is here that an old tradition continues to this day. On November 11th (St.Martin's Day) the annual Wroth Silver payment to the Lord of the Manor is made by twenty-five parishes in the Knightlow Hundred.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Rugby

ADJOINING PARISHES: Coventry, Wolston-Cum-Brandon, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Bubbenhall, Baginton.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1539-1931 Marriages: 1539-1837 Burials: 1561-1879 Banns 1823-1911

Bishop's Transcripts : 1671-1840 LIC

IGI: Christenings: 1759-1885, Marriages: 1755-1837. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

NONCONFORMIST: Methodist: Marriages: 1960,1967 (2 only).

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

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 61 BIR
1881 BCP BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1754-1837

MANORIAL RECORDS: Court Rolls 1497/1498, 1752.

OTHER SOURCES: Notes on the old registers and churchwardens' accounts of Ryton-on-Dunsmore, ed. A.Starkey, 1892.
Browett family records 14th-20th centuries.
Terriers of Ryton upon Dunsmore, Fred Clarke, TMA Vol.9 No.12 June 1992.
See also Gregory of Stivichall collection STR

[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]