LAWFORD, CHURCH WITH KING'S NEWNHAM

The village of Church Lawford lies four miles north west of Rugby. King's Newnham (or Newnham Regis) was originally a royal manor, but enclosures led to the depopulation of the original village. The church of St.Lawrence there was demolished in 1745, but some traces of it remain. There is an old Manor House, and Newnham Hall was built in the eighteenth century.

DIOCESE: Lichfield HUNDRED: Knightlow UNION: Rugby

ADJOINING PARISHES: Monks Kirby, Newbold-on-Avon, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Wolston-Cum-Brandon, Brinklow.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1575-1984 Marriages: 1575-1982 Burials: 1575-1916 Banns 1823-1925

Bishop's Transcripts : 1662-1838 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1575-1875, Marriages: 1576-1639, 1661-1752 & 1765-1877. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Memorial stones laid under floor in church copied 1872 WAR
Catholic cemetery WAR
Church Lawford. St.Peterís BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS All WAR
1801 Householders named with household numbers WAR
1851 &
1851 Newham Regis BIR
1851 vXII (RR) , SoG
1851 (Newnham Regis) vII (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1754-1837
Pre-1841 census

MANORIAL RECORDS: Plan and survey 1717 and 1725.

OTHER SOURCES: Boughton estate, survey 1779.
Townsend and Worth family, papers, diaries, deeds etc 17th-19th centuries.
Sir Theodosins Boughton and Laurel Water (account of his murder), N.Penwigton, War.Hist. Vol.1V Winter 1979-1980. See also Focus, Vol.1 No.2 Aug 1978.
W.I.Domesday Book 1976 for both Church Lawford and Newnham.

[Last updated: 3rd January 2000 ]