Walton D’Eivile Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Walton D’Eivile is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire. 

Alternative names: Walton, Walton D’Eville and Walton Maudit

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1843
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Walton D’Eivile Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Walton, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Death and Burial Records

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

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

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WALTON, a hamlet in Wellesbourne-Hastings parish, Warwick; 3¼ miles WNW of Kineton.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WALTON-DEIVILE (St. James), an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish of Wellesbourn-Hastings, Warwick division of the hundred of Kington, union of Stratford-on-Avon, S. division of the county of Warwick, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Stratford-on-Avon; containing about 200 inhabitants.

The manor, in the reign of Henry III., was the property of Walter d’Avill, one of the justices of assize for the county; it afterwards passed to the family of Strange, from whom it descended by marriage with a female heir, in the reign of Henry VIII., to Robert Mordaunt, ancestor of the present lord. The place forms a beautiful valley, well wooded. Walton Hall, the seat of Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., occupies a low situation, but is surrounded by a diversified tract of country.

The living of Walton was separated from that of Wellesbourn-Hastings in 1843. It is now a distinct perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Sir John Mordaunt, who has endowed it with £115 per annum, and the use of a house for the minister, in the park.

The church stands near the mansion, and is remarkable for the modesty and simplicity of its architecture, which is Grecian; it was enlarged, and the windows filled with stained glass, in 1843: the font belonged to an ancient Norman church which stood on the same site. The tithe, commuted for £217; and the glebe, comprising 45 acres; belong to the incumbent of Wellesbourn-Hastings: the rectory is valued in the king’s books at £4. 13. 4.

A school is supported by the Mordaunt family. Skeletons are frequently dug up, showing that this was formerly a more considerable place.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stratford on Avon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Kineton
  • Poor Law Union: Stratford on Avon
  • Hundred: Kington
  • Province: Canterbury