Grandborough Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Grandborough is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Other places in the parish include: Woolscott, Caulcott, and Calcutt.

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1581
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Grandborough Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Grandborough, 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.

Grandborough, 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.

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

Grandborough Strays

William Waren, p. B., & Anne Hewett, p. Grandborough 21 Dec. 1763 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

John Goode, p. Grandborough, & Elizabeth Townsend, p. B., lic. 16 Apr. 1797 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

Grandborough Parish Records

Grandborough Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records

Grandborough Warwickshire Parish Poor Law 1546-1904 – Payment Book 1836-1844, Poor Law Papers 1836-1892, Rate Book 1863-1880, Rate Books 1837-1892, Rent Book 1837-1882

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GRANDBOROUGH, a village and a parish in Rugby district, Warwick. The village stands on the river Leam, near the Oxford canal and the boundary with Northampton, 5 miles SE by E of Birdingbury r. station, and 6 NE of Southam; is a scattered place; and has a post office under Rugby. The parish includes the hamlets of woolscott and Calcutt. Acres, 4,100. Real property, £7,510. Pop., 462. Houses, 109. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £185. Patron, the Rev. R. Kettle. The church is ancient but good; and consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, with a neat spire. There are a national school, and charities £6.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

GRANBOROUGH (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Rugby, Southam division of the hundred of Knightlow, S. division of the county of Warwick, 3 miles (S.) from Dunchurch; containing, with the hamlet of Woolscott, 532 inhabitants.

The parish is situated on the left bank of the river Leam, equidistant from Rugby, Daventry, and Southam, and comprises by computation 4389 acres; the surface is varied, the scenery generally of pleasing character, and the soil productive. Its south-eastern extremity is skirted by the Oxford canal.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £5; net income, £185; patron, Mrs. Halse; incumbent, the Rev. W. J. Wise. The tithes were commuted for land in 1765; there is a glebe of 65 acres, with a new glebe-house, in the Elizabethan style, built in 1844. The church is an ancient structure, in the decorated style.

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 – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use 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: Marton
  • Poor Law Union: Rugby
  • Hundred: Knightlow
  • Province: Canterbury