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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

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

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

Links

Local History Society

OPC

Warwickshire OPC

Archives

IGI Warwickshire A-L
IGI Warwickshire N-Z
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.
Transcriptions from Warwickshire records
Online Databases for Stratford-Upon-Avon Police Charge Books, Cemetery Burials Register, Stratford Union Workhouse, Stratford Borough Workhouse, 1765 Smallpox Census
The Census and Suchlike in Warwickshire
Harbury & Lockley Poll books & census
Holden's Triennial Directory for Coventry, 1805
Warwickshire Strays Found in other county census returns
Baptism Register for St Mary's Church, Handsworth, Birmingham

Family and social history

Warwickshire Workhouses
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.
John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs
Tithe Apportionments
BIRMINGHAM LUNATIC ASYLUM - CASES

Maps & Photographs

Countywide interest

Specific Town Village interest

History Webring
1836 Inhabitants of Chilvers Coton.
Coventry's historic past
Nuneaton Society
Perry Barr Lots of photos and name indexes here for this area - someone has taken a lot of time on this - be sure to scroll through and use the name indexes.

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 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/countyrecordoffice County Record Office]
 *[http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=7298&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=10468&EXPAND=5396 Birmingham City Archives]
 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/472FA73688E0473780256EC8002D177E  Warwickshire BMD]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/index.html West Midlands BMD]
 *[http://www.dudley.gov.uk/community-and-living/deaths-funerals--cremations/genealogy-research-service Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council -Important Notice]
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 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/ Birmingham & Midland FHS]
 *[http://www.covfhs.org Coventry FHS]
 *[http://www.nnwfhs.org.uk/ Nuneaton FHS]
 *[http://www.rugbyfhg.co.uk Rugby Family History Group]
 *[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/warks.html Warwickshire History Society]
 *[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/wmids.html West Midlands History Society]
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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://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.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]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/dirs/coventry_1805.html Holden's Triennial Directory for Coventry, 1805]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/warks_census_strays.html Warwickshire Strays Found in other county census returns ]
 *[http://www.search.digitalhandsworth.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/default.asp?txtKeywords=&lstContext=&lstResourceType=&lstExhibitionType=3&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=&album=&viewpage=/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/child.asp&originator=/engine/custom/gallery.asp&page=&records=&direction=&pointer=1056&text=0&resource=4518  Baptism Register for St Mary's Church, Handsworth, Birmingham]
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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.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]
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 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census.html Population of Warwick Town From The Town Maps of Warwick 1610 - 1851]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/photogs.html Victorian Photography Studios]
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 *[http://www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/ Windows on Warwickshire]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/tyaiwintro.html Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire (excluding Birmingham)]
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 *[http://forums.birminghamhistory.co.uk/Birmingham History Webring]
 *[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.nuneaton-online.org.uk/history.htmThe Nuneaton Society]
 *[http://www.perrybarrbeyond.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Perry Barr] Lots of photos and name indexes here for this area - someone has taken a lot of time on this - be sure to scroll through and use the name indexes.