BRINKLOW

The village is about six miles north west of Rugby. Combe Abbey is a sixteenth century house incorporating some of the original abbey cloisters and was in the possession of the Earls of Craven until 1923. The eighteenth century mansion of Newbold Revel is two miles away.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Rugby

ADJOINING PARISHES: Comberfields (extra parochial), Monks Kirby, Kings Newnham, Wolston-Cum-Brandon, Binley.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1558-1928 Marriages: 1574-1633, 1748-1974

Burials: 1558-1978 Banns 1754-1812 1824-1915

Bishop's Transcripts : 1673-1840 LIC Begin c1858 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1558-1876 Marriages: 1574-1632 & 1748-1876. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1558-1812 Marriages: 1750-1799 SoG

NONCONFORMIST: Congregational: Z 1843-1909 Burials: 1861-1878 M Christenings: 1856-1872.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St.John the Baptist BMSGH.m/fiche , WAR
SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1801 Householders named with household numbers WAR
1851 BIR
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1677-1837
Marriage 1750-1837
Poor Law c1690-1860
Pre-1841 CENSUS

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1441-1841 STR

OTHER SOURCES: Survey of farms belonging to Lord Leigh 1767.
Survey of lands of Arthur Gregory Esq. 1787.
Brinklow's Story, D.E. Williams. Ward collection drawings.
See also Gregory of Stivichal collection

[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]