Ashow Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Ashow is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish church: St. Mary, Assumption of Our Lady

Parish registers begin: 1733

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian

Adjacent Parishes

Cottages at Ashow
Cottages at Ashow

Ashow Parish Registers

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

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

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

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Ashow, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Ashow, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Ashow Parish Records

Ashow Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records – Account Books 1757-1805, Account Books 1832-1850, Charity, Miscellaneous, Parish Rates, Rate Books 1848-1850

Lichfield Wills and Administrations 1516 to 1652

The following names have been extracted from Lichfield Wills and Administrations registered in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1516 to 1652.

1556 Hudson, Edmund, Ashow

1650 Bryans, Thomas, Ashow, ad.

1628 Collett, Margaret, Ashow

Parish History

Ashow The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASHOW, a parish in the district and county of Warwick; on the river Avon, adjacent to Stoneleigh, near the Northwestern railway, 2½ miles ESE of Kenilworth. It has a post-office under Kenilworth. Acres, 1,012. Real property, £1,527. Pop., 149. Houses, 40. The property is not much divided. The manor was given, in the time of Edward IV., to the Abbey of Stoneleigh. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £295. Patron, Lord Leigh. The church is ancient. Charities, £45.

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

Ashow A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ASHOW (St. Mary), a parish, in the Kenilworth division of the hundred of Knightlow, union, and S. division of the county, of Warwick, 2½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Kenilworth; containing 172 inhabitants. The parish contains by measurement 1000 acres, of which about 800 are arable and pasture, and 200 woodland; the soil is chiefly red sand and clay. The lands are intersected by the river Avon. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £6. 2. 1., and in the patronage of Lord Leigh: the tithes have been commuted for £216. 17., and the glebe consists of about 12 acres.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Ashow The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840

Ashow, a parish in the Kenilworth division of the hund. of Knightlow, union of Warwick, county of Warwick; 4 miles north-north-east from Warwick; on the river Avon. Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. of Coventry and dio. of Lichfield and Coventry, now in the dio. of Worcester; rated at £6 2s. 1d.; gross income £295. Patron, in 1835, Chandos Leigh, Esq. There is a National school here. Charity to the poor £5 per annum. Pop., in 1801, 205; in 1831, 176. Houses 42. Acres 1,100. A. P. £1,797. Poor rates, in 1837, £86.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.

Historical Maps

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Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Warwick
  • Probate Court: Pre-1837 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1836 – Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Stonleigh
  • Poor Law Union: Warwick
  • Hundred: Knightlow
  • Province: Canterbury