Difference between revisions of "Warwickshire"

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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.

Resources

Primary Reference

County Record Office

Warwick Library - The Modern Records Centre

Birmingham City Archives

West Midlands BMD

Warwickshire OPC

Warwickshire Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

Warwickshire Baptisms and Marriages

The Census in Warwickshire

Warwickshire Census Strays

The Midlands' Digital Library

List of Illegitimacy Orders

Nuneaton and North Warwickshire FHS

Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire Genealogy

Warwickshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets

John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs

Transcriptions from Warwickshire Records

Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire (excluding Birmingham)

Tithe Apportionments

Windows on Warwickshire

Specific Town and Village Interest

Alcester and District Local History Society

Aston Brook Through Aston Manor

Barford Heritage Group

The Baddesley/Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882

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 Lives - the Carl Chinn Archive

Birmingham Lunatic Asylum - Cases

Wrightson's Triennial Directory, 1818, for Birmingham

Virtual Brum

Chilvers Coton Inhabitants in 1836

Coventry During The Blitz

Coventry FHS

Coventry Collections

Coventry's Historic Past

History of Coventry Market

Coventry 1805 Holden's Triennial Directory

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Deaths, Funerals & Cremations

Dunchurch

Digital Handsworth

Harbury & Lockley Poll Books & Census

Ladywood

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

Leamington Priors

Baptisms for Napton, Lower Shuckburgh and Stockton

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

Pictures of Coventry and the surrounding Area

Heart of England -Photographs

Victorian Photography Studios

Register Office

Warwickshire BMD

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 & Archive Lookup Requests

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Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

Photo Offers

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

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 '''Primary Reference'''
 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/countyrecordoffice '''County Record Office''']
 *[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ Warwick Library - The Modern Records Centre]
+*[http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/archives.bcc Birmingham City Archives]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/index.html West Midlands BMD]
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 *[http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/wks/ Warwickshire Look-up Exchange]
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 *[http://www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/ Windows on Warwickshire]
 '''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
 *[http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/prod/dialspace/town/square/fk26/localpast/index.htm Alcester and District Local History Society]
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 *[http://www.barfordheritage.org/wordpress/ Barford Heritage Group]
+*[http://www.baddesleypitexplosion.co.uk The Baddesley/Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/ Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry]
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 *[http://www.stewartelse.com/asylum/index Birmingham Lunatic Asylum - Cases]
-*http://www.dwarner.com/data/data.htm Wrightson's Triennial Directory, 1818, for Birmingham]
+*[http://www.dwarner.com/data/data.htm Wrightson's Triennial Directory, 1818, for Birmingham]
 *[http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/genealogy/index.htm Virtual Brum]
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 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/chilvers_coton_1836.html Chilvers Coton Inhabitants in 1836]
-*[http://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/CoventryRaids.htm Coventry During The Blitz] Includes a list of victims
+*[http://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/CoventryRaids.htm Coventry During The Blitz]
 *[http://www.covfhs.org Coventry FHS]
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 *[http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/main/main.php Coventry's Historic Past]
+*[http://www.rupert-fish.co.uk/interests/coventry_market_history.html History of Coventry Market]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/dirs/coventry_1805.html Coventry 1805 Holden's Triennial Directory]
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 *[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/macjoseph/ Ladywood]
-*[http://www.digital-ladywood.org.uk/ Digital Ladywood] includes Attwood Green, Benmore, Five Ways, Lee Bank & Woodview
+*[http://www.digital-ladywood.org.uk/ Digital Ladywood includes Attwood Green, Benmore, Five Ways, Lee Bank & Woodview]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/leamingtonpriors.html Leamington Priors]
+*[http://www.centuries-before.co.uk/index.htm Baptisms for Napton, Lower Shuckburgh and Stockton]
 *[http://www.oxhill.org.uk/History.htm History of Oxhill]
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 *[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/ Quinton Local History Society]
-*[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/archive/archive.htm Quinton National School Registers] also Woodhouse Road School
+*[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/archive/archive.htm Quinton National School Registers also Woodhouse Road School]
 *[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/oracle/oracle.htm The Quinton Oracle]
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 *[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wythallindex/index.htm Wythall People]
 '''Maps and Photographs'''
-*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/photogs.html Victorian Photography Studios]
+*[http://www.picturesofcoventry.co.uk/ Pictures of Coventry and the surrounding Area]
+*[http://hearteng.110mb.com/index.htm Heart of England -Photographs]
-'''Books of local interest'''
+*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/photogs.html Victorian Photography Studios]
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 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/web/corporate/pages.nsf/(DisplayLinks)/4DDCBAEECD4F52D0802573920051B4D4 Warwickshire BMD]
-* [http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/472FA73688E0473780256EC8002D177E Online certificate searching and applications - Warwickshire Web]
+*[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/472FA73688E0473780256EC8002D177E 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.
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-==Record Office Lookup Requests==
+==Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests==
 Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
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-'''Record Office Lookup Contacts'''
+'''Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts'''
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 '''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
-*Nuneaton [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=238 Dawnie and her 3 munchkins]
-*Shirley (West Midlands) [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=266 JBee]
-*South Birmingham [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=266 JBee]
 ==Photo Offers==
 Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.
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