Kineton, Warwickshire Genealogy

England Warwickshire Warwickshire Parishes

Parish History
Kineton, or Kington, is a small town, a parish, and a sub-district in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire. The town stands on an eminence in the midst of a valley, it is 2½ miles SE of the Fosse way, 4¼ miles NW of the boundary with Oxfordshire, and 6 miles W S of Fenny-Compton railway station, it has a post office under Warwick, and there is a Wesleyan chapel. The parish contains the hamlet of Little Kineton and the township of Combrook. There is a Baptist chapel at Little Kineton.

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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