WROXALL

Wroxall is about five miles north west of Warwick on the main road to Birmingham. The ruins of a Benedictine Priory or Nunnery are in the grounds of a Private School for Girls, as is the parish church. The present mansion is Victorian and replaces the Elizabethan house which, in 1713, was purchased by Sir Christopher Wren for his son. The church has many memorials to the Burgoyne, Wren and Dugdale families. Shortwood Common is within the parish.

DIOCESE: Worcester. HUNDRED: Barlichway. UNION: Warwick

ADJOINING PARISHES: Balsall, Honiley, Beausale (Beausall), Haseley, Shrewley, Rowington, Baddesley Clinton.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1586-1992 Marriages: 1838-1980 Burials: 1587-1993.

Bishop's Transcripts : Begin 1634 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1587-1810, Marriages: 1587-1662 & 1664-1885. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: C Burials: 1587-1643, 1664-1812 Marriages: 1587-1643,1664-1730, 1756-1898 SoG

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St. Leonard BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: WOR

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

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1586-1812 & Banns 1755-1823

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1781-1782 STR
Records of Wroxall Abbey and Manor, J.W.Ryland.

DEEDS: There is a special bound volume containing a Calendar of Grants, Charters, Deeds etc of the Wroxall Abbey estate and of the parish from 1283.

OTHER SOURCES: Accounts and receipts of J.H.Clark of Warwick, timber merchant for goods supplied to James Dugdale Esq., for the Wroxall estate.
Wren of Wroxall Abbey, records in bound list.
Collection of baptismal, marriage and death certificates 1838-1860, mainly of the Wren family.

[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]