BIRDINGBURY OR BIRBURY

The village is about six miles south west of Rugby and about the same distance north of Southam. It is known locally as Birbury. The parish has had close links with Marton, often one incumbent serving the two parishes. Birdingbury Hall is Jacobean in style. Earl Leofric gave the manor to the Benedictine monastery at Coventry and it later passed to the Shuckburghs, the Leighs of Stoneleigh and the Wheelers.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Rugby

ADJOINING PARISHES: Frankton, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Leamington Hastings, Stockton, Long Itchington, Marton.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1559-1977 Marriages: 1560-1978 Burials: 1569-1979.

Bishop's Transcripts : 1665-1862 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1559-1865, Marriages: 1560-1836. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1559-1977 Marriages: 1559-1836 Burials: 1559-1812 SoG Christenings: 1559-1977 Marriages: 1559-1836 Burials: 1559-1812 COV

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

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1861 BIR
1851 vVI (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1661-1837
Marriage 1754-1837
Pallot 1780-1837

DEEDS: Deeds 1793-1901

[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]