ASTLEY

The parish is about four miles west of the centre of Nuneaton and is part of the Arbury Hall Estate. The castle is now a hotel. The estate was possessed by the Newdigate family in 1654. The church of St. Mary the Virgin has choir stalls that date from the early fifteenth century and a Saxon dial probably taken from an earlier church. George Eliot based one of the Dodson sisters in The Mill on the Floss on an aunt, Mrs Ann Garner, who lived here. Howe Green, Market End and Nutters' Heath are place names within the parish.

DIOCESE: Lichfield HUNDRED: Knightlow UNION: Nuneaton

ADJOINING PARISHES: Chilvers Coton , Bedworth , Exhall (Near Coventry) , Corley , Fillongley , Arley , Ansley .

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1670-1985 Marriages: 1676-1981 Burials: 1671-1953 Banns 1755-1942

Bishop's Transcripts : 1676-1864 (gaps) LIC Begin c1858 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1670-1878, Marriages: 1683-1719, 1755-1836. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Church and Yard STR
St.Mary the Virgin BMSGH.m/fiche WAR SoG BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1782 All named with ages WAR CamGp
1831 Householders named with household numbers WAR
1851 BIR
1851 vVI (RR) SoG
1881 BCP BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES See Appendix II
Burial 1676-1837
Marriage 1755-1837
Poor Law c1690-1860
Pre-1841 census

DEEDS: Deeds, wills etc, deposit of Herbert & Franklin, solicitors, Banbury. .

OTHER SOURCES: Newdigate family papers (contains survey of the inhabitants of the parish).
Carr-Gregg of Astley, family papers 1792-1932 (includes Upton family papers).
Family papers of the Templetown family 1792-1932.
The History of Astley and its parish church, I. Carr-Gregg, 1929.

[ Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]