DIOCESE: Worcester. HUNDRED: Kington. UNION: Shipston-on-Stour
ADJOINING PARISHES: Whitchurch, Tredington, Stretton-on-Fosse, the Gloucestershire parishes of Ebrington and Mickleton, Quinton.
Parish Registers: Christenings: 1588-1899 Marriages: 1588-1979 Burials: 1588-1925 Banns 1754-1782 1824-1957
Bishop's Transcripts : Begin 1611 WOR
IGI: Christenings: 1847-1875, Marriages: 1685-1837. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)
REGISTER COPIES:
CMB 1588-1812
STR CMB
1588-1711
BIR
Marriages:
1813-1837
SoG Foxcote Roman
Catholic Christenings: 1765-1801
SoG Christenings: 1767-1812
STR
NONCONFORMIST: Roman Catholic: see Source Material and
C, M & R Vol.2.
Z 1705-1848 Marriages: 1815-1841 Burials: 1767-1838
M Christenings: 1806-1848.
Foxcote Z 1767-1877 Marriages: 1838-1870 Burials:
1867-1868 M Christenings: 1847-1883.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St. Mary's BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR
PROBATE RECORDS: WOR (Study of 16th and 17th century wills by the Shipston-on- Stour Local History Group).
CENSUS RETURNS: All
WAR
1851
BMSGH SI v.13
SoG ,
BIR
1881
BCP ,
BMSGH(PS)
INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1754-1837
Pre-1841 census
MANORIAL RECORDS: 1450-1451, 1495, 1756-1775
STR
1763 (2 documents)
BIR
Court Rolls and ministers'
accounts 1376-1472
WAR
DEEDS: Deeds relating to John Hickson's Charity Estate 1701-1775. Many deeds in Canning collection.
OTHER SOURCES: Hiron of Ilmington and Shipston: deeds and papers.
Canning of Foxcote: deeds, wills, etc. estate ledgers, farm accounts, cottage rentals, includes the
following: Servants' wages book 1831-1846, details of posts and signatures for wages received,
Garden and account book includes names of workmen, number of days worked and rate per day 1846-1873,
Estate Rent Book, with occupiers' names 1835-1853, Farming Weekly accounts 1852-1871, giving names
of workers, jobs, daily wages.
Sam Bennett, the Ilmington Fiddler, Memoir of a Cotswold Character, John H.Bird,
1952 (Index of Ilmington people).
Our Ilmington, Extracts from the autobiography of John Purser
containing reminiscences of his childhood as a farmer's son late
19th century, 1971.
The History of Ilmington, S.M.Gardner and
E.M.H. Ibbotson, 1974.
The Ordering of the Common Fields in
Ilmington War.Hist. Vol.1 No.1.
A Short Guide to Ilmington and its
History BMSGH(LL)
Records of Ilmington
BIR
W.I. Scrapbook 1965.