DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Kington. UNION: Southam
ADJOINING PARISHES: Bishop's Tachbrook, Whitnash, Harbury, Bishop's Itchington, Gaydon, Lighthorne, Moreton Morrell, Newbold Pacey, Kington (or Kingston, now a modern parish) was part of Chesterton. It should not be confused with Kineton, sometimes spelt Kington.
Parish Registers: Christenings: 1538-1978 Marriages: 1538-1982 Burials: 1538-1977.
Bishop's Transcripts : 1662-1846 (gaps) LIC Begin c1833 WOR
IGI: Christenings: 1746-1846, Marriages: 1746-1836. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)
REGISTER COPIES: Marriages: 1538-1731 STR
CM Burials: 1538-1738 BIR
CBurials: 1538-1812 Marriages: 1538-1837 Burials: 1785-1842
SoG
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS:
Church
WAR
Church brasses
STR
St.Giles
BMSGH.m/fiche ,
WAR ,
SoG ,
BIR
PROBATE RECORDS: LIC
CENSUS
RETURNS: All
WAR
1873-1876
All named with childrenís ages
WAR
1851 BMSGH SI v.14
SoG ,
BIR
1851 vXIV
(RR) ,
SoG
1881
BCP ,
BMSGH(PS)
INDEXES
Burial 1738-1837
Marriage 1754-1837
Poor Law c.1690-1860
MANORIAL
RECORDS: Woad accounts for manor of Chesterton 1638-1641
(Miscellany 1, Dugdale Society Vol.XXXI.) 1383-1554, 1733
STR 1442 from Ed.1 1803
(Kingston) 1758-67 (2 documents with Nether Shuckburgh)
BIR
Map and survey of Lordship mid
18th century. Part of map of Lordship 1697.
OTHER SOURCES: The Story of Chesterton, Rev.A.W.M.Watson, 1934.
The History of Chesterton and Kingston, Warwickshire, Dorothy
A.Noden. 1978.
(A valuable book for the family historian for much
of it is about people; illustrated.)
Chesterton Windmill
War.Hist.Vol.1 No.6.
Parish magazine 1883,1884-1893,1895-1933.
Survey by James Fish 1697.
Ward Collection drawings.