Fenny Compton Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Fenny Compton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire. 

Alternative names: Fenny Compton

Parish church: St Peter and St Clare

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1627
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include: General Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

FENNY COMPTON
FENNY COMPTON High Street

Fenny Compton Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Fenny Compton, 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.

Fenny Compton, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Fenny Compton Marriages 1627 to 1812 Warwickshire Parish Registers Marriages Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and J. Harvey Bloom. Volume 1 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Death and Burial Records

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

Fenny Compton, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Parish Records

Fenny Compton Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records

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.

Roe Thomas, Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, draper and grocer, July 15, 1836.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COMPTON (Fenny), a parish in Southam district, Warwick; on the Oxford canal and the Oxford and Rugby railway, 8¾ miles NNW of Banbury. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Rugby. Acres, 2,330. Real property, £3,965. Pop., 639. Houses, 148. The property is divided among a few.

The manor belonged, at Domesday, to the Earl of Mellent; and passed to Sir Simon Montfort, to the Cops, the Spencers, and the Willises. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £417. Patron, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are charities £9. Aymer, afterwards Bishop of Winchester, in the time of Henry III., was rector; and Sir H. B. Dudley was a native.

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

Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Fenny Compton (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Southam, Burton-Dasset division of the hundred of Kington, S. division of the county of Warwick, 5¾ miles (E. by N.) from Kington; containing 615 inhabitants. It comprises by measurement 2077 acres, and contains within its limits some quarries of good building-stone: the Oxford canal passes through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the King’s books at £15. 8. 4., and in the patronage of Corpus Christi College, Oxford: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1778; the glebe comprises 412 acres.

The church is an ancient structure. A national school is supported by subscription. On the summit of Gredenton Hill, in the parish, are the remains of a British camp, in the form of a horse-shoe, 228 yards in length, defended with six lines of ramparts, between which were fosses round the steep declivity of the hill. Sir Henry Bate Dudley, a comic writer of some note, was born here in 1745.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

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: 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