Monks Kirby Warwickshire Family History Guide
Monks Kirby is an Ancient Parish partly in Leicestershire and partly in Warwickshire. Copston Magna is a chapelry of Monks Kirby.
Other places in the parish include: Stretton under Fosse, Pailton, Newbold Revel, Easenhall, and Cestersover.
Parish church: St Edith
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1647
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1677; see also Withybrook (Warwickshire)
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, General Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Jewish, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Society of Friends/Quaker.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
- Kings Newnham
- Combe Fields
- Withybrook
- Lutterworth Leicestershire
- Copston Magna
- Wibtoft
- Cotesbach Leicestershire
- Newbold on Avon
- Harborough Magna
- Willey
- Brinklow
- Churchover
Parish History
Monks Kirby
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MONKS-KIRBY, a township in Lutterworth district, and a parish partly also in Rugby district, all in Warwickshire. The township lies adjacent to the Fosse way, 2 miles NE by E of Stretton r. station, 2¾ SW of Watling-street at the boundary with Leicestershire, and 6 NNW of Rugby; and has a post office under Lutterworth. Pop., 596. Houses, 13-4.
The parish contains also the hamlets of Pailton, Stretton-under-Foss, Newbold-Revel, and Copston-Magna in Lutterworth district, and the township of Easenhall in Rugby district. Acres, 9,640. Real property, £14,388. Pop. in 1851, 1,899; in 1861, 1,931. Houses, 429.
The manor was known at Domesday, as Chirchberye; was given, by William the Conqueror, to Geoffrey de Wirce; was given by him to the monks of Angiers in Normandy, who then founded here a cell of their abbey; took thence the name of Monks-Kirby; was given by Richard II. to Thomas Mowbray, in exchange for Epworth priory; passed, in the time of Henry VIII., to the Duke of Suffolk; went, by sale, to Lord Fielding; and has descended to the Earl of Denbigh.
Newnham-Paddox, a handsome mansion, is the Earl of Denbigh’s seat; and contains a choice collection of family portraits and works of art. Townthorn is the seat of W. Jackson, Esq., brother of the late American general, Stonewall Jackson; and stands on an eminence, with an extensive view. Street-Aston House and Newbold-Revel also are chief residences.
A place called Cloudesley-Bush, on the W side of the Fosse way, taken its name from having a mound reputed to have been the burial-place of a Roman soldier called Clandins; and numerous Roman relics, including bricks and substructions, have been found.
The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Withybrook and the p. curacy of Copston-Magna, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £300. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church was built, on the site of an older one, by Geoffrey de Wirce; was rebuilt by the Duke of Suffolk, of the time of Henry VIII.; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with pinnacled tower; contains several ancient monuments of the Fielding; and, in 1867, was likely to be restored.
Another church is in Copston-Magna; and is a modern edifice, in the Norman style.
There are also, within the parish, a school-church, an Independent chapel, two Baptist chapels, a national school, a grammar school, another school with £30 a year from endowment, and charities £32.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Easenhall
Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Easenhall, a township in Monks-Kirby parish, Warwick; adjacent to the Oxford canal, 4 1/2 miles NW of Rugby. Acres, 1,112. Real property, £2,389. Pop., 179. Houses, 39.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A Fullerton & Co. N.d.c. [1870-72].
Newbold Revel
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
NEWBOLD-REVEL, a hamlet in Monks-Kirby parish, Warwick; 4¼ miles N W of Rugby. Pop., 12. Houses, 2.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Pailton
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
PAILTON, a village and a township in Monks-Kirby parish, Warwick. The village stands 2½ miles N E of Stretton r. station, and 5 NNW of Rugby; and has a post-office under Lutterworth, a Baptist chapel, and a national school. The township comprises 1, 600 acres. Real property, £4, 537. Pop., 704. Houses, 156. The manor belongs to the Earl of Denbigh. Pailton House is the seat of Capt. Curtis.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Stretton under Fosse
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STRETTON-UNDER-FOSS, a township in Monks-Kirby parish, Warwick; on the Fosse way and the Trent Valley, at Stretton r. station, 5¾ miles NW of Rugby. It has a post-office under Rugby, and an Independent chapel. Real property, £2,934. Pop., 331. Houses, 77. Newbold Hall is a chief residence.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Marriages Out of Parish
| Details | Place of Marriage |
|---|---|
| Was here maryed by a lycence to the Chanclr of the Dyocese Thomas Worcester, of Draycott, unto Catherin Bamforde, of Stretton in the parish of Kirbye 22 Dec. 1600 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| William Stapleton & Mrs. Mary Sack, both p. Monk’s Kirby 24 June 1634 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| William Hands, p. Monks Kirby, & Elizabeth Berrey, p. B. 29 July 1782 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Monks Kirby
Stretton-under-Foss
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Lutterworth
- 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: Lutterworth
- Hundred: Knightlow
- Province: Canterbury