Chesterton Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Chesterton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Alternative names: Chesterton and Kingston, Chesterton and Kington Otherwise Little Chesterton, Little Chesterton

Other places in the parish include: Great Chesterton, Kingston, Little Chesterton, and Chesterton Parva.

Status: Ancient Parish succeeded by Chesterton Ecclesiastical Parish

Parish church: St Giles

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish Registers

Chesterton Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Chesterton, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Chesterton Marriage and Banns Records

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

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

Chesterton Death and Burial Records

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

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

Chesterton Strays

Joseph Olorenshaw, p. Chesterton, Warw., &. Elizabeth Olorenshaw, p. B., lic. 8 Feb. 1768 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

John Jennings, p. Chesterton, & Elizabeth Atkins 17 Oct. 1805 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

Parish History

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

CHESTERTON, a parish in Southam district, Warwick; on the Fosse way, and on an affluent of the river Avon, 1 ¾ mile SW of Harbury r. station, and 4 ½ SW by S of Southam.

It includes Kingston hamlet; and its post-town is Harbury, under Rugby. Acres, 3,510. Real property, £4,189. Pop., 217. Houses, 42. The manor belonged, from the time of Edward II. till that of Henry VIII., to the family of Peyto; and belongs now to Lord Willoughby de Broke. The manor-house was built in the time of Edward IV.; enlarged, in 1630, after designs by Inigo Jones; and demolished in 1802.

A large windmill, of circular form, on six arches, designed by Inigo Jones, surmounts an eminence near the church. A Roman camp, supposed by some to have been the Roman station Mediolanum, is within the parish on the Fosse way; and has yielded Roman coins. Chesterton wood is a meet for the Warwick hounds.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £82. Patron, Lord Willoughby de Broke. The church is ancient; and contains three fine monuments of the Peyto family. Lord Cobham, the famous Wickliffite, found shelter with the incumbent in Henry V.’s time; and Cardinal Peyto, the Pope’s legate in the reign of Mary, was a native.

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Southam
  • 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: Southam
  • Hundred: Kington
  • Province: Canterbury