Exhall (near Alcester), Warwickshire Family History Guide
Exhall (near Alcester) is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire. Wixford is a chapelry of Exhall (near Alcester).
Other places in the parish include: Little Britain and Grafton.
Alternative names: Exhall and Wixford, Exhall with Wixford
Parish church: St. Giles
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1605
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1612
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
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Parish History
Exhall
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Exhall, a parish in Alcester district, Warwick; near Icknield-street and the river Arrow, 2 miles SE of Alcester, and 6 W by N of Stratford-on-Avon r. Station. It includes the hamlets of Little Britain and Grafton; and is “the Dudging Exhall” of Shakespeare. Post-town, Alcester, under Bromsgrove. Acres, 780. Real property, £1,310. Pop., 203. Houses, 54. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Wixford, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £409. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old, and was restored, in 1862, at a cost of £900. Bentley’s school has £7; and other charities £13.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Exhall, a parish in the Stratford division of Barlichway, union of Alcester, county of Warwick; 2 miles south-east of Alcester. Living, a rectory annexed to the curacy of Wigglesford, in the archd. and dio. of Worcester; rated at £8 17s. 3½d.; gross income £423. Patron, the Lord-chancellor. Charities, in 1825, £1 11s. 6d. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £24 1s. Acres 780. Houses 44. A P. £862. Pop., in 1801, 129; in 1831, 241
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Exhall, 2 miles S.E. Alcester. P. 207
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Grafton
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Grafton, a hamlet in Exhall parish, Warwick; 2 miles SE of Alcester. Pop., 79
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Poll Books
Exhall, Warwickshire Poll Book 1868
Below are the names of those that voted in the South Warwickshire Election, 1868.
Exhall
236 Bomford, Henry
237
238 Crump, Joseph
239 Harman, William
240 Henley, Thomas
241 Henley, Charles
212 Husband, Edmund Thomas
243 Johnson, Joseph
244 Tredwell, George, sen.
245 Wadams, John
List 2.
246 Collett, Samuel
217 Cleftin, John
248 Cowper, George
249 Hendley, William
250 Ingram, John James
251 Wilkes, Edward
252 Wilkes, John
Total 5 5 10 10
Grafton, Warwickshire Poll Book 1868
Below are the names of those that voted in the election of November 1868 between Lord Hyde. Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.B. H. C. Wise, Esq. John Hardy, Esq.
Poll Book, South Warwickshire Election, November 1868.
Alcester Polling District
Grafton
No. and Name of Voter.
List 1.
253 Baylis, George
254 Caldicott, William
255 Cox, Lamb William, Rev.
256 Davis, John
257 Elton, John
258 Fisher, Joseph
259
260 Hutchings, Thomas
261 Johnson, William
262 King, Thomas
263 Perks, Henry
264 Pool, Sidney
265 Ransford, Alfred
266 Rogers, Richard
267 Smith, William
268 Wynn, William
List 2.
269 Coney, Herbert
270 Harward, Walter
271 Wilkes, Charles
Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Alcester
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Warwick
- Poor Law Union: Alcester
- Hundred: Barlinchway
- Province: Canterbury