WAPPENBURY

This ancient village is four miles north east of Leamington Spa, and it virtually lies within the ramparts of an Iron Age fort. It is very small and secluded; there is a fourteenth century cross in the churchyard. Eathorpe is a hamlet.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Warwick

ADJOINING PARISHES: Bubbenhall, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Frankton, Marton, Hunningham, Weston-under-Wetherley.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1753-1962 Marriages: 1754-1984 Burials: 1753-1984.

Bishop's Transcripts : 1653-1847 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1753-1885, Marriages: 1753-1895. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: C Burials: 1753-1812 Marriages: 1754-1837 SoG

NONCONFORMIST: Roman Catholic: see Source Material and C, M & R Vol.2.

Christenings: 1744-1923 Marriages: 1769-1798,1834-1858 Burials: 1811-1859,1890-1891 M Christenings: 1831-1893.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Church and Yard WAR
St. Anne R.C. BMSGH.m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR
St. John the Baptist BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All & 1871 Eathorpe WAR
1851 Eathorpe BIR
1851 vII (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1754-1837
Poor Law c1690-1860

MANORIAL RECORDS: Rent account for Northe Lawle 1580.
Plan of manor 19thc.

OTHER SOURCES: Muniments of the Vyner family of Eathorpe, 16th-19thc. STR
Vyner family of Wappenbury, a family history 1885.
Russell 1830-1903.
See Gregory of Stivichall collection STR


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]