Priors Marston Warwickshire Family History Guide
Priors Marston is a chapelry of Priors Hardwick Ancient Parish in Warwickshire.
Alternative names: Marston Priors
Parish church: St Leonard
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1689
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662
Nonconformists include: General Baptist, Moravian/United Brethren, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Napton on the Hill
- Boddington Northamptonshire
- Byfield Northamptonshire
- Upper Shuckburgh
- Charwelton Northamptonshire
- Hellidon Northamptonshire
- Priors Hardwick
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MARSTON-PRIORS, a village and a parish in Southam district, Warwick. The village stands near the Oxford canal, adjacent to Northamptonshire, 5 miles NE by E of Fenny-Compton r. station, and 5 SE of Southam; and has a post office under Rugby. The parish comprises 3,630 acres. Real property, £6,578. Pop., 698. Houses, 155. The property is much subdivided.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £230. Patron, Earl Spencer. The church was mainly rebuilt in 1863, but retains the old tower.
There are chapels for Moravians and Wesleyans, and some charities.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
MARSTON, PRIORS’ (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Southam, Burton-Dassett division of the hundred of Kington, S. division of the county of Warwick, 5½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Southam; containing 701 inhabitants.
The monks of Coventry had a charter of free warren here in the reign of Henry III.; and in that of Edward I. they had 28 tenants, who, besides service, did suit to the prior’s court twice a year: after the Dissolution, the manor was granted to Sir Edward Knightley, and passed from him to Lord Spencer.
The parish is bounded on the east by a portion of Northamptonshire, and comprises by measurement 3386 acres, mostly rich pasture: there are some quarries of stone, but of inferior quality, and used only for repairing the roads. The Oxford canal passes through a small part of the parish, and on its bank is a wharf.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed, with that of Lower Shuckburgh, to the vicarage of Priors’-Hardwick; the glebe comprises 103 acres. The church was entirely repewed in 1841, at a cost of £359. James West, in 1705, and Josiah Kay, in 1711, bequeathed property now producing £40 a year, for teaching children.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
The History Topography and Directory of Warwickshire 1830
Priors-Marston, – a township in the parish of Priors Hardwick, in Kington hundred, 4 miles SE from Southam, and 79 from London. In 1803, its parochial rates were £737 18s. 6d. at 5s. in the pound. In 1811, it contained 125 houses and 532 inhabitants. In 1821, it contained 134 houses and 593 inhabitants. In 1826, it was valued at £5423, and its proportion to the county rate was £22 11s. 11d.
Source: The History Topography and Directory of Warwickshire 1830. Wm. West. Printed and Published by R. Wrightson, Athenaeum, New-Street; and sold by Baldwin and Craddock, and Hurst, Chance and Co., London. 1830.
Parish Registers
Marriages Out of Parish
| Details | Place of Marriage |
|---|---|
| Uriah Davenport, p. Prior’s Marston, co. Warwick, & Elizabeth Penn, of F. C. 8 Nov. 1780 | Fenny Compton |
Parish Records
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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