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From: "Jacqui Simkins" <>
Subject: Re: [WAR] St Edith(a) ? in Monks Kirby
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:41:54 -0000
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Hello Worcestershire Boys!!

Would it help if I look at Crockford's in RO? Or are we happy that it is St Edith in VCH?

Jacqui
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Fisher
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [WAR] St Edith(a) ? in Monks Kirby


Hi Gus

Is this the url you are looking for ?

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/place.aspx?gid=34&region=5

Mike behind the big house in Westwood Park.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gus Tysoe" <>
To: <>; "Warwick list" <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [WAR] St Edith(a) ? in Monks Kirby


> Hi Pickard,
>
> I share your feeling that Dedications should be Right - and have also
> struggled unsuccessfully to find Definitive Answers...
>
> What *may* be 'the bible' of Church Dedications - Frances Arnold-Forster's
> "Studies in Church Dedications" Vol 3; 1899, Appendix 3, page 359 - shows
> 'Monks-Kirby' as one of a number of churches dedicated to St Edith [of
> Polesworth - not to be confused with St Edith of Wilton], which sounds
> fine.
> Except that both Tamworth and Amington are included there under the
> spelling
> St Editha.
>
> WAR Records Office would seem to state it's St Editha - while the Census
> Reports on Ecclesiastical Parishes 1891-1911 consistently show St Edith.
>
> What I'd like to do is see what the WAR VCH has to say on the matter - but
> following my Crash back in December I lost my 'Favourites', and can no
> longer find the site that includes this online... Any help from Out There
> to
> restore it would be welcomed!
>
>
> I'd add that the 1871 and 1881 Census Reports state that "No complete list
> of the Ecclesiastical Sub-divisions of the Country is published by the
> Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Diocesan Registrars, or any other
> Authority ... "
>
> Maybe the 1851 Census of Religious Worship might give 'an' answer - as
> perhaps might a selection from Crockfords Clerical Directories - but
> contradictory spellings exist, while others would seem to have marginally
> changed their names over the years, adding or deleting a single letter...
>
> You may well have strayed into a minefield here :-)
>
> Gus
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hunimex - Gmail Account" <>
> To: "Warwick list" <>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:16 AM
> Subject: [WAR] St Edith(a) ? in Monks Kirby
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A quick project for anyone in the vicinity of Monks Kirby please........
>>
>> Can you verify the name of the church, perhaps get hold of a mini history
>> of
>> it, as there seems to be some confusion with the name - some are
>> reporting
>> St Edith and others St Editha.
>>
>> I'd like PPP to be right !!! At the moment, I have called it St
>> Edith's
>> church, lets hope I am correct
>>
>> Happy Hunting
>>
>> Pickard
>>
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