Gaydon, Warwickshire Genealogy

England   Warwickshire Parishes

Parish History
Gaydon, is a chapelry, in the parish of Bishop's Itchington, the union of Southam, and the hundred of Kington, Warwickshire, it is 2 miles N E from Kington. The chapel is dedicated to St. Giles. The inhabitants marry and bury at Chadshunt, which is a chapelry within the same parish.

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.

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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