BOURTON-ON-DUNSMORE

Bourton lies about six miles south west of Rugby beyond the busy A45 road from Coventry leading to the M1. It has some attractive thatched cottages. Draycote and Bourton are now combined as a civil parish.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Rugby

ADJOINING PARISHES: Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Dunchurch, Leamington Hastings, Birdingbury or Birbury, Frankton.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1560-1893 Marriages: 1560-1836 Burials: 1560-1812 Banns 1829-1905

Bishop's Transcripts : 1662-1839 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1560-1875, Marriages: 1560-1709, 1711-1728 & 1791-1836.
Draycote Church of Christ Baptist Z 1812-1837 Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Marriages: 1560-1812 PHIL 1 SoG , BIR , WAR
(With Frankton) C Marriages: 1560-1812 Burials: 1560-1796 SoG
Marriages: 1651-1675 BOYD MISC , SoG
Draycott (Bourton on Dunsmore Baptist Chapel) Christenings: 1819-1833 SoG

NONCONFORMIST: Baptist: Draycote Z 1812-1837 PRO , WAR , COV
Burials: 1883-1885 MChristenings: 1811-1881 WAR

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

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1861 (inc.Draycote) BIR
1851 vXI (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES(SS)
II Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1560-1836
Pallot 1790-1812
Poor Law c1690-1860

OTHER SOURCES: Plans and photographs, Bourton Hall 1906-1928.
Ledgers of John Hales, village blacksmith 1845-1852, 1887-1894.
Shuckburgh of Bourton-on-Dunsmore, 13th-19thc includes pedigrees of Couchman and Holbeche families.
Ward collection drawings.


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