WILLOUGHBY

This is a small parish on the Northamptonshire border. The scattered village is about three miles south east of Dunchurch. It appears in the Domesday Survey. The church of St.Nicholas dates from the sixteenth century.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Rugby

ADJOINING PARISHES: Barby, Braunston (Northamptonshire), Wolfhampcote, Grandborough.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1625-1982 Marriages: 1626-1983 Burials: 1625-1982 Banns 1826-1917

Bishop's Transcripts : 1665-1862 LIC Begin 1837 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1794-1885, Marriages: 1754-1836. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: C Burials: 1625-1878 Marriages: 1625-1862 SoG

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 SoG 1861 BIR
1851 vIX (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

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

MANORIAL RECORDS: Map of estate belonging to Magdalen College, Oxford 1835.
Court Roll 1805 and 1849.

DEEDS: Extensive collection of early Charity deeds (from 12thc) summarised.

OTHER SOURCES: Plan of estate of George Henry Arnold 1816.
History of the village of Willoughby, T.Deacon, 1829.
W.I.Domesday Book 1976.


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]