Arrow Warwickshire Family History Guide
Arrow is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.
Other places in the parish include: Kingle, Oversley.
Parish church: Holy Trinity
Parish registers begin: 1588
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Arrow
Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Arrow, a township and a parish in Alcester district, Warwick.
The township lies on the Alne or Arrow river, 1 mile SW of Alcester r. station, and 8 W of Stratford-on-Avon; and its Post Town is Alcester, under Redditch. Real property, £4,137. Pop., 295. Houses, 69.
The parish includes also the township of Oversley. Acres, 4,220. Real property, £6,811. Pop., 590. Houses, 111. The chief feature is the Marquis of Hertford’s magnificent seat of Ragley Park.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £248. Patron, the Marquis of Hertford. The church is ancient. Charities, £5. See Ragley Park.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Arrow with Ragley, ¾ mile S. Alcester. P. 543.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Arrow The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840
Arrow, a parish in the hund. of Barlichway, union of Alcester, Warwickshire; 1 mile south-west of Alcester; on the Arrow river.
It includes the township of Arrow, with the hamlets of Oversley and Ragley.
Living, a rectory in the archd. and dio. of Worcester; rated at £10 10s. 7 1/2 d.; gross income £250. Patron, in 1835, the marquis of Hertford, who has a magnificent seat, called Ragley-hall, in this parish. Charities to the poor £5 per annum.
There are two infant schools. Pop., in 1831, 466. Houses 101. Acres 4,220. A. P. £5,787 Pop. of the township, including Ragley, in 1801, 245; in 1831, 287. Houses 65. Acres 2,560. A. P. £2,533. Poor rates, in 1837, £172
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.
The History Topography And Directory Of Warwickshire 1830
Arrow. – Standing near the river of the same name, is a parish in the hundred of Balichway, 2 miles from Alcester and 105 from London. In 1803 the sum raised by its parochial rates was £345 12s. 1½d. In 1811 its population was 250. In 1821 it contained 56 houses and 290 inhabitants. In 1826 it was valued at £3252. and its proportion to the county rate, £3 11s. It is a rectory, value £10 10s. 7½d. Patron, the Marquis of Hertford.
This manor was in the possession of the family of Burdetts from Edward I. to Henry VIII. when it was disputed between John Burdett and a female heir, married to John Conway. It was determined by arbitration in favour of Edward Conway, whose descendant, Edward Earl of Conway, dying without issue, bequeathed the estate, about 1684, to Popham Seymour, Esq. on condition that he should take the name of Conway, and from whom descended the Marquis of Hertford.
Source: The History Topography and Directory of Warwickshire 1830. Wm. West. Printed and Published by R. Wrightson, Athenaeum, New-Street; and sold by Baldwin and Craddock, and Hurst, Chance and Co., London. 1830.
Kingle and Oversley
The History Topography And Directory Of Warwickshire 1830
Kingle and Oversley, – are both in the parish of Arrow. In Dr. Thomas’s time, the former only contained a single house. The latter will be found in the Stratford division.
Source: The History Topography and Directory of Warwickshire 1830. Wm. West. Printed and Published by R. Wrightson, Athenaeum, New-Street; and sold by Baldwin and Craddock, and Hurst, Chance and Co., London. 1830.
Oversley
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Oversley, 1 mile E. Arrow. P. 242
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Parish Records
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Poll Books
Arrow Poll Book South Warwickshire Election 1868
Below are the names of those that voted in the South Warwickshire Election, 1868.
ARROW.
131 Bayzand, Joseph
132 Hunt, Henry
133 Jackson, Edwin Thomas
134 Jackson, Henry Shailer
135 Shailer, Charles Francis
136 Sisam, Henry
137 Stannus, Beauchamp Walter
List 2.
138 Griffiss, Edward
139 Purton, Rev. Henry
Source: Poll Book, South Warwickshire Election, 1868: H Mills. Printed and Sold by H. T. Cooke and Son, High Street, Warwick; 1869.
Oversley Warwickshire Poll Book 1868
Below are the names of those that voted in the election of November 1868 between Lord Hyde. Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.B. H. C. Wise, Esq. John Hardy, Esq.
Poll Book, South Warwickshire Election, November 1868.
Alcester Polling District
Oversley
No. and Name of Voter.
List 1.
394 Haywood, Charles Humphrey
395 Hopkins, William George
396 Silvester, William Prattenton
397 Symcox, Francis
List 2.
398 Huxley, George
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Hopkins George, Oversley mill, Arrow, Warwickshire, miller, Feb. 18, 1826
Directories
Directory of Warwickshire 1850
Arrow
Wm Atkins joiner
Hy Thos Bayley Esq
Rev Hugh C Carleton MA Rector
Richard Cooper blacksmith
Michael Griffiss vict and wheelwright Rose and Crown
Miss My Hemming, Thos Hemming tailor
Marquis of Hertford Ragley Hall
Edwd Locke gardener
Hy Sisam corn miller
Sarah Slade shopkeeper
John Smith shoemaker and Joseph K Bazzard, Wm Chattaway, John Gilbert, Mary Ann Hunt, Henry Hunt, and Benj. Proctor, Thornhill, farmers
Oversley
Wm Blackland shoe maker
Wm Hall needle maker
Wm Hopkins corn miller
Fdk Huxley wheelwright
Wm Huxley timber merchant
Jph James vict., Cross Guns, Chpr. Thompson, master, Union Workhouse and
John Avery Park Farm
Sl Collitt, Charles H Haywood, Lower Lodge; Sarah Johnson, Rd. Morgan, and Richd. Silvester, Upper Lodge, farmers
Source: History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of Warwickshire By White Francis and co. 1850
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Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Alcester
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Warwick
- Poor Law Union: Alcester
- Hundred: Barlinchway
- Province: Canterbury