Category: Village Families

One of the families appearing in the earliest registers of St Peter’s Church are the Garfield family. Over the years there have been attempts by genealogists to link this family with the Garfield Family of America that arrived there around 1630 and lived in Watertown, Massachusetts. The links from the family traced in Watertown to… Read more

The Dalton Family were one of the biggest families in the villages for around 400 years until the end of the nineteenth century. Over the years they embraced various trades, and various family members spread across the world, with members of the family born in the villages, or first-generation relatives, emigrating to a range of… Read more

The Parish records for the combined parish of Church Lawford and King’s Newnham at St Peter’s Church have been kept since 1575. For many years they were held in a “strong box” at the Church, but they have now been transferred to the Warwick Records Office, with current records held centrally. The early records for… Read more

The Townsend Family were noted benefactors for the two villages, having a direct presence in King’s Newnham for around a century, and a similar time in Church Lawford but also with a presence in the wider local area for many more years, notably in Long Lawford and Clifton Upon Dunsmore, but also in Newbold, Hillmorton… Read more

The Townsend Family were noted benefactors for the two villages, having a direct presence in King’s Newnham for around a century, and a similar time in Church Lawford but also with a presence in the wider local area for many more years, notably in Long Lawford and Clifton Upon Dunsmore, but also in Newbold, Hillmorton… Read more

The Rugby Advertiser published some background information on the Brierly family, perhaps the glue that brought together the controlling nineteenth century families in the village. This was shortly after an interview they had carried out with John Brierly – which can be found here. Mr. John Brierly’s family have been at Kings Newnham since the… Read more