Burton Hastings, Warwickshire Genealogy

England   Warwickshire



Parish History
Burton Hastings St Botolph is an Ancient Parish in the diocese of Worcester and county of Warwickshire.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Burton Hastings like this:

BURTON-HASTINGS, a parish in the district of Hinckley and county of Warwick; on Watling-street and Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal, adjacent to the Trent Valley railway, 2 miles N of Bulkington r. station, and 3½ ESE of Nuneaton. Post Town, Bulkington, under Rugby. Acres, 1,910. Real property, £2,856. Pop., 199. Houses, 48. The manor belonged, in the time of Edward IV., to William Lord Hastings; and passed, by marriage, to the Cotton family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £87. Patron, W. Bucknill, Esq. The church is good; and there are charities £28.

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
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Poor Law Unions
Hinckley Poor Law Union, Leicestershire

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
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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