Gaydon Warwickshire Family History Guide

Gaydon is a chapelry of Chadshunt chapelry of Bishops Itchington Ancient Parish in Warwickshire. 

Alternative names: Gaydon and Chadshunt

Parish church: St Giles

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1701
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GAYDON, a parish in Southam district, Warwick; 3 miles NE of Kineton, and 4 WNW of Fenny-Compton r. station. Post town, Kineton, under Warwick. Acres, 1,140. Real property, £1,964. Pop., 292. Houses, 62. The manor belonged once to the bishops of Lichfield and Coventry; was afterwards long held by the Fishers; and passed to the Askells.

The parish is a meet for the Warwickshire hounds. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bishops-Itchington, in the diocese of Worcester. The church is later English.

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

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
John Robbins, p. Gaydon, & Mary Waren, p. B., lic. 26 Mar. 1776Bourton on Dunsmore
  

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Warwickshire, Gaydon – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Gaydon, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Warwickshire, Gaydon – Church records ( 5 )
Kineton Wesleyan Methodist Circuit : baptisms 1843-1912
Author: EurekA Partnership

Parish register transcripts, 1701-1820
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Gaydon (Warwickshire)

Parish registers for Chadshunt, 1754-1923
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Chadshunt (Warwickshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Gaydon (Warwickshire); Warwickshire (England). County Record Office

Parish registers for Gaydon, 1701-1940
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Gaydon (Warwickshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Chadshunt (Warwickshire); Warwickshire (England). County Record Office

Records of Gaydon
Author: Bloom, J. Harvey (James Harvey), b.1860

England, Warwickshire, Gaydon – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Gaydon and Chadshunt, Warwick, England ; christenings, 1660-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Gaydon and Chadshunt, Warwick, England ; marriages, 1662-1671, 1685-1835
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Warwickshire, Gaydon – Probate records ( 1 )
Original wills, 1701-1857
Author: Church of England. Peculiar Court (Bishops-Itchington, Warwickshire)

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Southam
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Bishop’s Itchington
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Marton
  • Poor Law Union: Southam
  • Hundred: Kington
  • Province: Canterbury