Dunchurch, Warwickshire Family History Guide
Dunchurch is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.
Other places in the parish include: Cawston, Toft, Thurlaston, and Dunchurch with Toft and Cawston.
Parish church: St Peter
Parish registers begin: 1538
Nonconformists include: Baptist, General Baptist, and Particular Baptist.
Fairs: Jan. 15, March 19, May 21, June 18, July 16, Aug. 20, Sep. 15, Oct. 1, Nov. 191
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Adjacent Parishes
- Wolston
- Bilton
- Grandborough
- Leamington Hastings
- Newbold on Avon
- Bourton on Dunsmore
- Church Lawford
- Stretton on Dunsmore
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DUNCHURCH, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Rugby district, Warwick. The village stands on the eastern verge of the county, near Dunsmoor, and near the Rugby and Warwick railway, 3¼ miles SSW of Rugby; is a polling-place; and has a post office under Rugby, and fairs on the third Monday of Jan., March, and May, the Monday before 24 June, the third Monday of July and Aug., 15 Sept., 1 Oct., and the third Monday of Nov.
The parish includes also the hamlets of Toft and Cawston, and the township of Thurlaston. Acres, 4,846. Real property, £6,445. Pop., 1,309. Houses, 318. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a meet for the N. Warwick hounds.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £320. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church belonged to Pipewell abbey; is partly early English, partly perpendicular; includes a fine Norman arch in its western porch; and has a large square tower, much mutilated, yet very beautiful. Boughton’s school has £81; Newcombe’s alms-houses, £74; and other charities, £185.
The sub-district contains eleven parishes. Acres, 28,956. Pop., 5,873. Houses, 1,340.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Dunchurch, a parish in the hund. of Knightlow, union of Rugby, county of Warwick; 16 miles east-north-east of Warwick, on the road to Birmingham; and near the Oxford canal.
Living, a vicarage, formerly in the archd. of Coventry and dio. of Lichfield and Coventry, now in the dio. of Worcester; rated at £14 1s. 10½d.; gross income £220. Tithes commuted in 1839. Aggregate amount £104 10s. 6d. Patron, the bishop of Lichfield.
Here are 6 daily schools, two of which are National, and one endowed, in 1707, by Francis Boughton, Esq., who also granted funds for apprenticing children of this parish. There are here endowed alms-houses. Other charities, about £145 per annum. Poor rates, in 1837, £399.
Dunchurch is one of the polling-places for the members for the northern division of the county.
Acres, including those of the hamlets of Toth and Thurlaston, 5,010. Houses 274. A.P. £7,498. Pop., in 1801, 1,087; in 1831, 1,310.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Dunchurch with Toft, 2½ m. S.W. Rugby. P. 1390
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Parish Registers
Marriages Out of Parish
| Details | Place of Marriage |
|---|---|
| Francis Smith, p. Dunchurch, co. Warwick, & Mary Bayliss, of F. C. 23 Sept. 1798 | Fenny Compton |
| Richard Vea, p. Dunchurch, & Mary Moe 22 Dec. 1662 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| John Bradshaw, p. Dunchurch, & Anne Wolf, p. Bourton 6 Jan. 1666 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| John Daftbrne, p. Nuneaton, & Alice Barrs, dau. of Abraham Barrs, p. Thurlaston, Dunchurch 6 Feb. 1666 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| Richard Grant, p. Dunchurch, & Elizabeth Arden 9 Jan. 1760 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| Samuel Adnet, p. Dunchurch, & Elizabeth Waren, p. B 28 July 1760 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| Arthur Coles, p. B., & Anne Hands, p. Dunchurch 7 Nov. 1769 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| William Hemmings, p. Dunchurch, & Sarah Goode, p. B. 29 July 1810 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| Thomas Barnwell, p. Dunchurch, & Esther Walton, p. B. 6 Apr. 1812 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| Henry Fawne, p. Thurlaston, & Ann Hobly, dau. of William Hobly, p. Draycot 16 Sept. 1636 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| Edward Timms & Elizabeth Hawes, p. Thurlaston 8 June 1641 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| Nathaniel Barrs & Anne Nuburne, p. Thurlaston 9 July 1664 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
| Daniel Gubbel, p. Thurlaston, & Sara Walker, p. Draycot 1 Mar 1686 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
Parish Records
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Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Gardner Joseph, Dunchurch, Warwickshire, innkeeper, March 14, 1837.
Truslove William, Dunchurch, Warwickshire, farmer, July 26, 1823.
Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Rugby
- Probate Court: Post-1836 – Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory), Pre-1837 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Marton
- Poor Law Union: Rugby
- Hundred: Knightlow
- Province: Canterbury