Weethley or Wetherley Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Weethley or Wetherley is a chapelry of Kinwarton Ancient Parish in Warwickshire. 

Alternative names: Wetherley

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1572
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1612

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic

Adjacent Parishes

Weethley Parish Registers

These records, which span both Warwickshire and Worcestershire archives, include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

Weethley, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Wetherley, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

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

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

Marriage and Banns Records

Weethley, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Wetherley, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Death and Burial Records

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

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

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WEETHLEY, a parish in Alcester district, Warwick; 3 miles SW of Alcester r. station. Post town, Alcester, under Redditch. Acres, 638. Real property, £616. Pop., 33. Houses, 9. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Kinwarton. The church was rebuilt in 1858.

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

The History Topography and Directory of Warwickshire 1830

Weethley, – In Doomsday-book written Willei, – a chapelry belonging to Kinwarton, with which its population is included. In 1826 it was valued at £713, and its proportion to the county rate, £2 19s.5d.

At an early period this manor is said to have been the property of the monks of Evesham, and at the dissolution of the monasteries, granted to Maude Lane, who disposed of it to Nicholas Fortiscue, and in 1095 [sic], it was sold to Humphrey Jennes of Yarnton–Hall, near Bermingham.

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.

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Alcester
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Warwick
  • Poor Law Union: Alcester
  • Hundred: Barlinchway
  • Province: Canterbury