This week the Villages of Interest are the Marstons. I thought we could do something a little different and highlight a few places. Marston is a common place name- derived from "the farm on or by marsh land" So you might like to list your surnames from the following 4 places in Warwickshire Butlers Marston Butler refers to Ralph de Borteler who once held the manor. Photograph of the old school see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/99365 Priors Marston Priors - belonged to the manor of Coventry http://www.priorsmarston.com/ Some interesting comments about the churchyard! Long Marston (Marston Sicca- meaning dry marsh?- a contradiction) http://www.longmarston.org/witch.htm "the last witch hunt" and Marston Green 1891 OS map see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55141&sheetid=8834 format as usual- surnames -dates - resources- useful information etc. Good Hunting Wendy

Hello List: First, Marston Green. It is a "problem" place for its ecclesiastical records. It was a chapelry of Yardley parish. Yardley parish was Worcester - so ecclesiastically you will find Marston Green listed as Worcestershire (as it is on Genuki). It has not, to my knowledge, ever geographically belonged to Worcestershire. Warwick RO holds its PRs since 1911 (creation of diocese of Coventry). Marston Green is now a housing area wedged beside Birmingham International Airport and the National Exhibition Centre. It is, I believe, now part of the civil parish of Bickenhill. You may find reference to Marston Culey...as far as I am aware, this is now, or is part of, Marston Green. Secondly, another Marston - Lea Marston. It is a parish in north Warwickshire near Whitacre Heath and Kingsbury, with Hams Hall alongside it. Hams Hall is now a large distribution centre being close to two major motorways - the Hall was removed many moons ago (to be re-erected at Cirencester as part of the Royal Agricultural College campus, and part I believe in USA). The site became an electricity generating plant before its reincarnation (if you can describe it as such) as a hub for trucks, thousands of them! All of these activities have brought people into the area. Lea Marston was part of the extensive diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, thus Bishop's Transcripts till mid-1800s are at Lichfield RO - as are probates to 1858; the parish registers are available at Warwick RO and should be also in some local libraries on film. If there is nobody on the list living in Lea Marston to oblige, if anyone needs photographs of any extant memorial stones I can go and explore with a camera. HTH Jacqui ----- Original Message ----- From: Wendy Boland To: warwick@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:46 PM Subject: [WAR] This week's villages-The Marstons This week the Villages of Interest are the Marstons. I thought we could do something a little different and highlight a few places. Marston is a common place name- derived from "the farm on or by marsh land" So you might like to list your surnames from the following 4 places in Warwickshire Butlers Marston Butler refers to Ralph de Borteler who once held the manor. Photograph of the old school see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/99365 Priors Marston Priors - belonged to the manor of Coventry http://www.priorsmarston.com/ Some interesting comments about the churchyard! Long Marston (Marston Sicca- meaning dry marsh?- a contradiction) http://www.longmarston.org/witch.htm "the last witch hunt" and Marston Green 1891 OS map see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55141&sheetid=8834 format as usual- surnames -dates - resources- useful information etc. Good Hunting Wendy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.30/1125 - Release Date: 11/11/2007 21:50

Hi All, I've scanned a 1920s painting of Butlers Marston. If anyone would like a copy on jpeg file, you're welcome. Barb Stacey Solihull UK > This week the Villages of Interest are the Marstons<