Alveston Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Alveston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Other places in the parish include: Tiddington Ville and Tiddington.

Parish church: St James

Parish registers begin: 1539

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Alveston Parish Registers

These records, which span both Warwickshire and Worcestershire archives, include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Alveston, Worcestershire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Alveston Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1535-1812

Alveston, Worcestershire Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Alveston Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms 1813-1910

Alveston, Worcestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Alveston Warwickshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1910

Alveston, Worcestershire Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Alveston Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910

Parish Records

Alveston Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records – Churchwarden Accounts 1773-1870

Directors of Companies

The following people were listed in the Directory of Directors 1881 as directors of companies who were either living in Alveston or the company was based in Alveston or both.

Fortescue – Capt Fortescue, J.P., Alveston Manor House, Stratford-on-Avon, is a director of the Gold Company of Southern India Limited

Historical Directory Transcriptions

Alveston Kelly’s Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire 1854

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ALVESTON, a village and a parish in Stratford on Avon district, Warwick. The village stands near the Avon, under Welcombe hills, amid charming environs, 2¼ miles ENE of Stratford-on-Avon r. station; was pronounced by Dr. Parry the Montpelier of England; and has a post office under Stratford-on-Avon.

The parish contains also the pleasant village of Tiddington. Acres, 4,300. Real property, £8,531. Pop., 844. Houses, 191. The property is much subdivided. A chief residence is Alveston House. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £220. Patron, the Rector of Hampton-Lucy. The church contains some fine tombs of the Lucys, and is very good. Charities, £46.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Alveston, formerly called Aulston, a parish in the Snitterfield division of the hund. of Barlichway, Stratford-on-Avon union, Warwickshire; 2 miles north-east from Stratford-on-Avon.

Living, a vicarage in the dio. of Worcester, exempt from the visitation of the archdeacon; rated at £6, and in the parliamentary returns at £130; gross income £223. The church contains some fine monuments of the Lucy family. Patron, the rector of Hampton-Lucy. The great and small tithes were commuted in 1771. There is a small daily school here. Charities connected with this parish yield a yearly revenue of £47.

The village stands in an agreeable neighbourhood, and finely wooded country, near the Avon; and has been called from the salubrity of its air, the Montpelier of England. A new church has been built here. Pop., in 1801, 465; in 1831, 650. Houses 135. Acres 4,300. A. P. £6,561. Poor rates, in 1837, £431. — To the westward of Alveston rise the Welcombe hills.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ALVESTON (St. James), a parish, in the union of Stratford-on-Avon, Snitterfield division of the hundred of Barlichway, W. division of the county of Warwick, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Stratford; containing 793 inhabitants.

It is situated on the river Avon, and comprises by measurement 2700 acres, whereof four-fifths are arable land; the remainder is pasture by the river side, with 150 acres of wood. The road from Stratford to Wellesbourn-Hastings passes through the parish.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6; net income, £220; patron, the Rector of Hampton-Lucy; impropriator, George Lucy, Esq.: the glebe consists of 90 acres. The church, rebuilt in 1839, at an expense of about £2500, chiefly raised by subscription, is in the early English style, with a square tower: the east window, presented by the patron, contains a full length figure of St. James, and the arms of the Lucy family; the interior of the edifice is very neatly and conveniently fitted up. A school is supported by subscription.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Maps

National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stratford on Avon
  • Probate Court: Post-1850 – Court of the Bishop of Worcester, Pre-1851 – Court of the Peculiar of Hampton Lucy
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Kineton
  • Poor Law Union: Stratford on Avon
  • Hundred: Barlinchway
  • Province: Canterbury