Warton Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Warton or Waverton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Warwickshire, created in 1849 from Polesworth Ancient Parish. 

Alternative names: Waverton

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1631
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1669

Nonconformists include: General Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Warton Parish Registers

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials

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

Warton Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms 1813-1910

Marriages and Banns

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Warton Warwickshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1910

Burials

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

Warton Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WARTON, or Waverton, a chapelry in Polesworth parish, Warwick; 1½ mile NE of Polesworth r. station. It was constituted in 1849; and its Post town is Polesworth, under Tamworth. Pop., 582. Houses, 141. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £122. Patron, the Vicar of Polesworth. There is a Baptist chapel.

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

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: Atherstone
  • 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: Arden
  • Poor Law Union: Atherstone
  • Hundred: Hemlingford
  • Province: Canterbury