Warwickshire

Also known as Shakespeare country being the home of William Shakespeare. Home to two castles, Warwick and Kenilworth, the remains of the 'Forest of Arden', as portrayed by Shakespeare in As You Like It, and the site of the English Civil War battlefield of Edgehill. The county's industries are engineering and textile production. The 15th-century Earl of Warwick known as the Kingmaker lived at Warwick Castle.

County town: Warwick Other major towns: Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull Warwickshire Places of Worship Regional projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• County Record Office

• Birmingham City Archives

• Warwickshire BMD

• West Midlands BMD

• Warwickshire OPC

• Warwickshire Look-up Exchange

• Warwick Library - The Modern Records Centre

• The Local History Directory — West Midlands

• Coventry FHS

• Nuneaton and North Warwickshire FHS

• Rugby Family History Group

• Warwickshire History Society

Countywide Interest

• The Midlands' Digital Library

• John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs

• List of Illegitimacy Orders

• Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire Genealogy

• The Census in Warwickshire

• Transcriptions from Warwickshire Records

• Windows on Warwickshire

• Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire (excluding Birmingham)

• Tithe Apportionments

• Warwickshire Baptisms and Marriages

• Warwickshire Census Strays

• Warwickshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Alcester and District Local History Society

• Aston Brook Through Aston Manor

• The Baddesley/Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882

• Barford Heritage Group

• Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry

• Birmingham History Webring

• Birmingham Area WW1 & 2 Family Memorial Inscriptions

• Old Birmingham Garages

• Birmingham History and Genealogy

• Birmingham Lunatic Asylum - Cases

• Virtual Brum

• http://www.dwarner.com/data/data.htm Wrightson's Triennial Directory, 1818, for Birmingham]

• Coventry People

• Chilvers Coton Inhabitants in 1836

• Coventry Collections

• Coventry's Historic Past

• Coventry During The Blitz Includes a list of victims

• Coventry 1805 Holden's Triennial Directory

• Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council -Important Notice

• Dunchurch

• Digital Handsworth

• Harbury & Lockley Poll Books & Census

• Ladywood

• Digital Ladywood includes Attwood Green, Benmore, Five Ways, Lee Bank & Woodview

• Ladywood Past and Present

• Leamington Priors

• History of Oxhill

• Perry Barr, Photographs and Comprehensive Name Indexes

• Quinton Local History Society

• Quinton National School Registers also Woodhouse Road School

• The Quinton Oracle

• Register of Burials Parish of Christ Church, The Quinton, 1840 to 1868

• Rugby Family History Group

• Solihull History

• Online Databases for Stratford-Upon-Avon

• Warwick County Prison Inmates 1800-1900

• Warwickshire History Society

• Virtual Museum, Willenhall

• Winson Green to Brookfields

• Wythall People

Maps and Photographs

• Victorian Photography Studios

Books of local interest

Register Office

Online certificate searching and applications - Warwickshire Web

There are currently four main offices from which copy certificates may be issued. Certificates from the Warwickshire North Registration District may be ordered from both Atherstone and Nuneaton.

Atherstone Register Office

Superintendent Registrar
Warwickshire North Registration District
First Floor, Warwick House,
Ratcliffe Street,
Atherstone
CV9 1JP
Tel 01827 713241

Nuneaton Register Office

Superintendent Registrar
Warwickshire North Registration District
The Register Office
Riversley Park,
Coton Road
Nuneaton
CV11 5HA
Tel 02476 348948

Rugby

Superintendent Registrar
Warwickshire East Registration District
5 Bloxam Place
Rugby
CV21 3DS
Tel 01788 571233

Warwick

Superintendent Registrar
Warwickshire South Registration District
Pageant House
2 Jury Street
Warwick
CV34 4EW
Tel 01926 494269

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Nuneaton Dawnie and her 3 munchkins
• Shirley (West Midlands) JBee
• South Birmingham JBee

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message the member with your queries.

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