GENUKI Home page

England

England

Contents

Contents

 

Towns and Parishes

Warwickshire
Towns & Parishes

 

Warwickshire Information

Information related to
all of Warwickshire

WARWICKSHIRE

Warwickshire%20Map

"Warwickshire, a county in the west-midlands of England; bounded N. by Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire, E. by Northamptonshire, S. by Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, and W. by Worcestershire; greatest length, N. and S., 52 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 32 miles; area, 566,271 acres, population 737,339. Warwickshire presents a pleasant undulating surface of hill and dale, watered by the Avon, Leam, and Tame. The climate is mild and healthy, and the soil, except some cold stiff clays on the higher grounds, is fertile. It consists chiefly of a strong red loam adapted for wheat and beans, or a sandy loam for barley and turnips. Much land is kept in permanent pasture for grazing. Formerly the county was thickly wooded (that part N. of the Avon being called the Forest of Arden), and fine timber is still abundant. Geologically it mainly belongs to the secondary formation. A coal field, 16 miles by 3 miles, extends from the neighbourhood of Coventry to the border of Staffordshire, E. of Tamworth. The principal minerals are coal, ironstone, limestone, freestone, blue flagstone, and fire-clay. The manufactures are carried on chiefly at Birmingham (hardware and silk goods) and Coventry (watches and ribbons). There are mineral springs at Leamington, Stratford on Avon, Ilmington, Southam, Willoughby, King's Newnham, &c.; The county is traversed in all directions by canals and railways." [Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887.]

INFORMATION RELATED TO ALL OF WARWICKSHIRE

Archives and Libraries

While the Libraries will have a small amount of original material they mainly contain published material, including some fiche and micro film of census.

The original material, particularly Parish Registers, will have been deposited at Record Offices. County Record Offices are often also the Diocesan Record Office as is the case with Warwickshire. The Birmingham, Deritend, Edgbaston and Erdington registers are at Birmingham Central Library, those for Stratford-upon-Avon (or Old Stratford) are at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and those for some parishes which are on the county boundary may be found in the neighbouring County Record Office. 

Return to top of page

Bibliography

An index to place names mentioned in the titles of topographical articles in the published volumes of the Victoria County History for Warwickshire.

Return to top of page

Cemeteries

Warwickshire Cemeteries 

Census Records

General Information about the Census

Census records for Southern Warwickshire

1851 Census for Warwickshire (also Devon and Norfolk) on CD ROM.

Online census records FreeCen

  Coventry Born Strays Index 1881 census.12,000 Coventry born people who moved away from Warwickshire before the census to other counties from 1798 to 1881. Covering the city as its known today, Exhall, Sowe, Coombe etc ,this is the only index of 1881 Strays from Coventry.

1881 census lookups are available from Jaquie Cook

An offline searchable index of the 1891 census for Birmingham. has been produced.

Maureen Surman has extracted from the 1841-1891 census records for Worcester Wharf Area families where one member of a family was born in Warwickshire or one member of the family was a Boatman.

The National Statistics' "200 Years of the Census" Warwickshire page.

Warwickshire Ancestors Project 

This project is providing a "free-to-view" transcription of the 1891 Warwickshire census returns. It is part of an initiative aimed at helping make high quality primary (or near-primary) records of relevance to UK family history conveniently and freely available online. 

The project makes use of specially developed software modules for data entry, checking, validation and database upload.

Volunteers need a computer and access to a microfiche reader.  Microfiche, software, instructions and lots of advice will be supplied by the organisers.  There is also a dedicated mailing list to ask questions on and to receive advice about changes or upgrades to the software
There are two phases.  In the first, the volunteer transcribes the data and enters it into the project software.  In the second phase, another volunteer checks the transcriptions against the microfiche using a separate piece of software.  

Currently (7 November 2002), we have over 120,000 records for Aston and Birmingham online.  The project has recently expanded to cover north east Warwickshire, including Coventry and Rugby.

This project will help not just ourselves and others who are researching Warwickshire family history now, but build a resource that will help future family historians. 

Online family historians can participate no matter where they live.  If you believe, as we do, that this information should be available for free and free available, then drop me Michael J McCormick (no email address available) a line.

Here are some (brief) Notes from the 1821 Census for Warwickshire, suggesting reasons for local population changes, transcribed by Alan Longbottom.

Return to top of page

Church History

Photographs by Sally Lloyd of churches (exterior and interior) in Warwickshire (This site has moved and the URL fails to load). Steve Bulman has photos of churches in Warwickshire.

The Church Monuments Society was founded in 1979 and offers a focus for all who have an interest in church monuments of all types and periods. It was conceived to encourage the appreciation, study and conservation of church monuments both in the UK and abroad.  They are setting out to provide photos and transcriptions of notable church monuments. Coverage is organised by county and for Warwickshire is limited at present. 

Church Records

Ted Wildy's UK Marriage witness index entries [ ftp ] for Warwickshire.

Batch numbers for use with the familysearch site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The contents of the book "Parish Register Copies in the Library of the Society of Genealogists" for Warwickshire are now on-line.

The Quaker FHS have a series of pages on locating Quaker Records in various parts of the UK. 

Warwickshire records

Return to top of page

Civil Registration

Details of Registration Districts in Warwickshire can help you decide which office to contact.

Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be obtained from the Superintendent Registrar at the following District Register Offices:

If ordering from a District Office, please note the following: (a) the cost of a certificate is currently (April 1998) 6.50 UK pounds - send a Sterling cheque payable to the Superintendent Registrar plus return postage or two International Reply Coupons; (b) the St Catherine's Index references are of no value; (c) for marriage certificates, the precise place of marriage must be given; (d) Civil Registration in England and Wales began on July 1st 1837. Return to top of page

Description and Travel

Photographs and images.

Heart of England includes some photographs covering Warwickshire

Pubs and Taverns in Warwickshire

Black Country

Return to top of page

Folklore

Folklore in Warwickshire and in Birmingham

Dorn Turner's folklore, customs and superstitions including ancient, historical,sacred sites and hauntings of the Midlands.

Return to top of page

Genealogy

A surnames list compiled by Hugh Winters of Warwickshire research interests of a number of Internet and CompuServe users. This list is continually being updated.

The following information is required for submissions

Names researched
Time frame e.g 1800-1878
Town
Email Address
Postal Address
Web Site Address(If any)

which may be submitted to Warwickshire interests

http://www.archivecdbooks.com Details of CD materials for genealogists.

Genealogical Research in Birmingham. Details of facilities in Birmingham. 

The Midlands Historical Data project produces searchable facsimile copies of old local history books and directories of interest to genealogists. It specialises in the three counties of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire, working closely with libraries, archives and family history societies in the area. Digital images are made freely available to participating organisations to improve public access. Now featuring a free search index on its web-site to all its books.

Parish Mouse.   Photographs  of parish churches graves and memorials. Transcriptions of old books  and historical directories providing information about the parish and lists of residents.

On-line Parish Clerks. 

The On-line Parish Clerk (OPC) Project is designed to get volunteers to take on the responsibility for a parish or parishes. Their role is to make on-line and look-up facilities available to researchers; OPCs are contactable by email. Each OPC may have a transcribed set of his/her parish records, census and any other local history information that would be useful to a family historian with an interest in the parish. However, it takes time to transcribe and accumulate material, so an OPC may not yet have full data for all these sources; it depends upon time available.

Electronic Mailing Lists

Warwickshire section of the RootsChat Messaging Forum.

The Warwickshire Genealogy Mailing List is an e-mail list for anyone with genealogical interests in the county of Warwickshire. Subscriptions to the List are free of charge. By subscribing to the List, you will receive e-mail messages from other genealogists and family historians with roots in Warwickshire. Participation in the List's discussions is welcomed. Ideas for messages to List can include: 

The Warwickshire Look-up Exchange provides details of services available for Warwickshire.

Warwickshire and Birmingham transcriptions and indexes, including MIs, Census (inc. FreeCEN) and other submitted data.

Return to top of page

Land and Property


 Facsimiles and annotated transcriptions of the accounts of Thomas Elkington 1758-9, bailiff to William Holbech of Farnborough Hall. Also a  facsimile of the almanac in which he wrote these accounts, Rider's British Merlin 1758

Warwickshire section of Pat Johnson's Family Deeds website, providing full transcripts of old deeds and documents, the originals of which are for sale to finance further purchases and transcripts

Return to top of page

Maps

British History Online - Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 Maps -  The County Series of Ordnance Survey maps for Great Britain. Begun in 1840, this is the first comprehensive historic mapping of England, Scotland and Wales.

Return to top of page

Medical Records

Medical Heritage of Great Britain, a site produced by the Bath & Wessex Medical History Group, providing detailed information on a county level of the history of medical treatments, and locations of some associated buildings .

Return to top of page

Military

War Memorials

Return to top of page

Names, Personal

Name Index to The History of Warwickshire by William West (1830), indexed by Ted Wildy:

Copies of email messages containing names and other facts taken mainly from old books and contributed by Robert Deloyde and others here. Most of the information has been obtained from the Warwickshire mailing list.

Return to top of page

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

The Workhouse (by Peter Higginbotham) covering England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with history, locations, pictures, etc.

Return to top of page

Social Life and Customs

Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs to 1516 was compiled by Dr Samantha Letters at the Centre for Metropolitan History, and is organised by county. It includes a brief summary of the early history of many large and small places, with details of markets and fairs and the people granted the right to hold them.

Return to top of page

Societies

Return to top of page

Sources

If you are looking for sources of information, these sites will hlelp Return to top of page

Towns and Parishes

Return to top of page

Find help, report problems, and contribute information.

GENUKI contains many hyperlinks and directives to sites developed by others. They are provided for your convenience only. We do not control nor guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of such sites, and in the event of a link to such a site being 'broken', or otherwise unavailable, our only recourse is to remove that link.
[Last updated: 1st May 2008 - Peter Abbott]