Temple Grafton, Warwickshire Genealogy

Parish History
GRAFTON, TEMPLE (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford division of the hundred of Barlichway, S. division of the county of Warwick, 3¼ miles (S. E. by E.) from Alcester; with the hamlet of Arden.

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:

Item 2: Marriages, 1754-1812; Baptisms and burials, 1757-1812; Baptisms, marriages, burials (Binton), 1539-1801; Marriages, 1756-1811 (Binton). The Temple Grafton records are almost destroyed at the beginning and end of the Register Book.

Baptisms, 1813-1875; Marriages, 1813-1887; Burials, 1813-1878; Banns, 1824-1878; Accounts, 1791-1875. Includes damp-destroyed register from about 1700 to 1754 with some (5 or 6) legible entries at top and bottom of pages.

Items 4-7: Marriages, 1873-1927; Burials, 1876-1932; Banns, 1876-1939; Baptisms, 1875-1979. A transcription of burials available at Temple Grafton Burials 1876-1932.

Item 5: Baptisms, 1612-1613, 1615, 1618-1622, 1625, 1628-1629, 1633-1641, 1663, 1668-1671, 1674-1675, 1677-1689, 1691-1700; Marriages, 1613, 1615, 1618-1621, 1625, 1629, 1633-1635, 1637, 1639, 1669, 1674, 1681, 1683-1684, 1688-1689, 1691, 1697, 1699-1700; Burials, 1612-1613, 1615, 1618-1622, 1625, 1628-1629, 1633-1640, 1663, 1668-1671, 1674-1675, 1677-1689, 1692-1700. (Most pages are out of order and many are missing. Contains some Latin.) A transcription of the marriages is available at Temple Grafton Marriages 1612-1812. This transcription is taken from Marriages at Temple Grafton, 1612-1812 ; Also on microfilm. Item 1: 1949. on 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm; and another filming Item 2: 1967.

Item 1: Baptisms and burials, 1874-1878, 1884, 1897-1899, 1904-1907 (years filmed in reverse order and some are missing)

Parish register transcripts of Temple-Grafton, 1612-1864 In Savage, Richard. Collections of parish register transcripts and extracts, monumental inscriptions, notes and other material.

Vol. 47 Bishop's transcripts 1612-1700 Item 5.

Vol. 62 p. 103-111 Christenings 1695-1824 Burials 1762-1831 Marriages 1754-1864 Item 8.

The original parish registers are found at the Warwickshire Record Office, although only a microfilm copy is available to the public. Churchwarden and parish chest records are also available here which have not been microfilmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Record Office website is found at www.warwickshire.gov.uk/countyrecordoffice

Bishops Transcripts for the period after 1700 are included within those of the Diocese of Worcester as a whole. For example, the records for 1739 are found on arranged by deanery.

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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.

Census Records
Free transcriptions of the 1841, 1861 and 1891 censuses for Warwickshire, including Temple Grafton are available on Pickards Pink Pages.

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.

A tithe map created in 1812 is held in the Warwickshire Record Office. A copy of this map is also held at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive in Stratford upon Avon.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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