WASPERTON

The village is four miles south west of Warwick. It became the property of St.John's College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1843 by Sir Gilbert Scott in fourteenth century Gothic style. There are a few old houses in the village.

DIOCESE: Worcester. A Peculiar of Hampton Lucy. HUNDRED: Kington. UNION: Warwick.

HAMLETS: Packwood was a parochial chapelry or perpetual curacy with this parish until 1850. Heathcote is also a hamlet.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1538-1926 Marriages: 1538-1980 Burials: 1538-1978 Banns 1826-1853.

Bishop's Transcripts : Begin 1611 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1737-1885, Marriages: 1737-1895. Wideley available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: CMB 1538-1837 BMSGH (Pbn) BIR , SoG
Banns 1826-1877 SoG , COV

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Church and Yard STR
St. John's BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: STR (Peculiar Court of Hampton Lucy). There is an index to wills, admons. and inventories 1678-1795.

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 61 BIR
1851 vII (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1539-1837
Marriage 1754-1837

MANORIAL RECORDS: Inquisition of the lands of the Priory of Coventry listing tenants 1280.
Plan of estates of St.John's College, Oxford 1840.
Survey of manor of Wasperton and Heathcote 1686. WAR
The inclosure of the manor of Wasperton in 1624.
University of Birmingham Historical Journal, Vol.III No.2 1952.

OTHER SOURCES: Clifton family, entries from Geneva Bible.
Notes from the diary of Rev.John Morley, Vicar 1787-1817.
Oldham family (wills etc) 1886-1908.
Vennor family 1662-1841.
Banns certificates and burial certificates 1769-1933.


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]