Stretton on Dunsmore , Warwickshire Genealogy

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 * image = Stretton upon- dunsmore- All Saintschurch.jpg
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 * Type = Ecclesiastical Parish
 * County = Warwickshire
 * Hundred = Knightlow
 * Poor Law Union = Rugby
 * Registration District = Rugby
 * PRbegin = 1681
 * BTbegin = 1670
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Worcester
 * Archdeaconry =
 * Archdeaconries =
 * Rural Deanery = Coventry
 * Parish =
 * Peculiar =
 * Chapelry =
 * Probate Court = Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory)
 * Probate Other = Post-1836 - Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
 * Archdeaconry Court =
 * Bishops Court =
 * Prerogative Court =
 * Archive = Warwickshire County Record Office

Parish History
STRETTON-UPON-DUNSMORE (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Rugby, Rugby division of the hundred of Knightlow, N. division of the county of Warwick, 6 miles SE by E from Coventry.

PRINCETHORPE, is a township in Stretton-on-Dunsmore parish, Warwickshire; on the Fosse Way, near the river Ichene, 6 miles N W of Southam.

Stretton upon Dunsmore All Saints completed 1837 and designed by Thomas Rickman.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Stretton on Dunsmore parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Information about the parish may be found on Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks. Records are also available at the Warwickshire County Record Office.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Warwickshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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