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.

Church records
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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