Warwickshire

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Warwickshire

County town: Warwick

Other major towns: Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull

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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Record Office Lookup Contacts

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Nuneaton Dawnie and her 3 munchkins
• Shirley JBee
• South Birmingham JBee

Links

• County Record Office

• Birmingham City Archives

• Warwickshire BMD

• West Midlands BMD

• Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council -Important Notice

Local History Society

• Birmingham & Midland FHS

• Coventry FHS

• Nuneaton FHS

• Rugby Family History Group

• Warwickshire History Society

• West Midlands History Society

OPC

• Warwickshire OPC

Archives

• IGI Warwickshire surnames A-L

• IGI Warwickshire surnames 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

Maps & Photographs

• Population of Warwick Town From The Town Maps of Warwick 1610 - 1851

• Victorian Photography Studios

Countywide interest

• Windows on Warwickshire

• Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire (excluding Birmingham)

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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