Brinklow, Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Brinklow is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish church: St John the Baptist

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1673

Nonconformists include: Independents and Primitive Methodists.

Adjacent Parishes

Brinklow Church Warwickshire
Brinklow Church Warwickshire

Brinklow Parish Registers

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials

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

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

Brinklow Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms 1813-1910

Marriages and Banns

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

Brinklow Warwickshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1910

Burials

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

Brinklow Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910

Brinklow Strays

Thomas Gibbs, p. Brinklow, & Mary Wolf, p. Bourton 25 Oct. 1665 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

Edward Sale, p. Brinklow, & Hannah Land, p. Bromsgrove 22 Apr. 1669 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

Richard Ryly, p. Brinklow, & Ann Bradly, p. B 6 July 1695 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

Parish Records

Brinklow Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records – Accounts 1766-1774, Accounts 1797-1850, Accounts 1815-1831, Accounts 1821-1841, Accounts 1821-1850, Accounts 1825-1837, Accounts 1829-1850, Vestry Books 1819-1850

Historical Directories

Brinklow Bennett’s Business Directory for Warwickshire, 1914

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.

White Thomas, Brinklow, Warwickshire, innholder, April 17, 1821.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRINKLOW, a village and a parish in Rugby district, Warwick. The village stands on the Fossé way and the Oxford canal, 1½ mile SW of Stretton r. station, and 5½ NW of Rugby. It has a post office under Coventry; is a seat of petty sessions; and was formerly a market-town.

The parish comprises 1,410 acres. Real property, £3,512. Pop., 736. Houses, 179. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged anciently to the Mowbrays, and had a castle of theirs; but passed to the Stutevilles and the Segraves. Traces of a Roman camp exist; and some Roman relics have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £228. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is variously early and decorated English; was restored in 1862; and comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower.

There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists. A school has £17 from endowment; and other charities have £31. The family of Rous, the antiquary, were residents.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BRINKLOW (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the Kirby division of the hundred of Knightlow, N. division of the county of Warwick, 6½ miles (E.) from Coventry, on the road to Market-Harborough; containing 793 inhabitants.

This place derives its name from a large tumulus, on which stood the keep or watch-tower of a very ancient castle of uncertain erection, of which there are no remains. In the reign of John, Nicholas de Stuteville, lord of the manor, received the grant of a market to be held on Monday, and a fair on the festival of St. Margaret.

The parish comprises 1393a. 3r. 22p.: about 150 acres are wood, and of the remainder, one-third is arable, and two-thirds pasture; the surface is level, and the soil a good strong loam. The labourers who work at Combe Field reside here, and the number of cottages is therefore considerable. The Oxford canal passes within a quarter of a mile of the parish; and the Roman fosse-way, on the line of which are some traces of an encampment, bounds it on the east.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £17. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £228. The church is built in the style which prevailed in the reign of Henry VII.

There is a place of worship for Independents. The interest on £60 given by the Rev. W. Fairfax, in 1761, is applied to instruction; as is also the interest of £800 left in 1789 by William Edwards, after deducting £13. 19. for bread distributed to the poor.

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

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Rugby
  • 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: Coventry
  • Poor Law Union: Rugby
  • Hundred: Knightlow
  • Province: Canterbury