Chesterton, Warwickshire Genealogy

Parish History
Chesterton, (St. Giles) is a parish in Southam district, or Warwickshire; it is on the Fosse Way, and on an affluent of the river Avon, it is 1¾ miles SW of Harbury railway station, and 4½ miles SWS of Southam. It includes Kingston hamlet; and its post town is Harbury, under Rugby.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain