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.

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

Register Office Contact Details

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

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Nuneaton Dawnie and her 3 munchkins
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Local History Society

OPC

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Archives

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Maps & Photographs

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 *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyWarwick_(A-M).htm#PageTitle IGI Warwickshire A-L]
 *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyWarwick_(N-Z).htm#PageTitle IGI Warwickshire N-Z]
-*[http://hunimex.com/warwick/ Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire genealogy] Includes some transcribed census pages, links to Online Parish Clerks and useful snippets such as the 1820 voters list, baptisms, marriages, war memorials etc.
+*[http://hunimex.com/warwick/ Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire genealogy]
 *[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Warks..htm Transcriptions from Warwickshire records ]
-*[http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/543/504/ Online Databases for Stratford-Upon-Avon] Police Charge Books, Cemetery Burials Register, Stratford Union Workhouse, Stratford Borough Workhouse, 1765 Smallpox Census
+*[http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/543/504/ Online Databases for Stratford-Upon-Avon]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/warks_cen.html The Census and Suchlike in Warwickshire]
 *[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/staff/lockley/harbury/ Harbury & Lockley Poll books & census]
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 *[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/warks/warwickshire_workhouses.htm Warwickshire Workhouses]
-*[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/calendarofprisoners Warwick County Prison Inmates 1800-1900] Online database of inmates in Warwick County Prison between 1800 and 1900. Also includes some cases relating to Birmingham and Coventry. Includes details of the crime and of victims.
+*[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/calendarofprisoners Warwick County Prison Inmates 1800-1900]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/pubs/index.html John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs]
 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/tithe Tithe Apportionments ]
 *[http://www.stewartelse.com/asylum/index Birmingham Lunatic Asylum - Cases]
 *[http://www.billesley.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Birmingham Area WW1 & 2 Family Memorial Inscriptions]
-*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/illegits.html List of Illegitimacy Orders] Taken from the Session records Illegitimacy Orders for Warwickshire
+*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/illegits.html List of Illegitimacy Orders]
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 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/chilvers_coton_1836.html 1836 Inhabitants of Chilvers Coton.]
 *[http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/main/main.php Coventry's historic past]
-*[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, Includes a list of Victims]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/dunchurch.html Dunchurch]
 *[http://www.nuneaton-online.org.uk/history.htmThe Nuneaton Society]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/leamingtonpriors.html Leamington Priors]
-*[http://www.perrybarrbeyond.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Perry Barr] Photographs and comprehensive name indexes.
+*[http://www.perrybarrbeyond.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Perry Barr, Photographs and comprehensive name indexes]
 *[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/archive/archive.htm Quinton National School registers] also Woodhouse Road School
 *[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/archive/archive.htm Register of Burials Parish of Christ Church, The Quinton,1840 to 1868]