Berkswell, Warwickshire Genealogy
| Berkswell, Warwickshire | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Hemlingford |
| County | Warwickshire |
| Poor Law Union | Meriden |
| Registration District | Meridan |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1653 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1665 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Arden |
| Diocese | Worcester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory) Post-1836 - Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Warwickshire County Record Office | |
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
Berkeswell St John the Baptist is an Ancient parish in Warwickshire; the chapelry of Barston, Warwickshire was formed from the parish.
Berkeswell, or Berkswell, is a parish in Meriden district, Warwickshire; it is on the Birmingham and Stafford railway, 6 miles W of Coventry. It has a station on the railway, and the post office is under Coventry.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Berkswell, Warwickshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| AC = Warwickshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials (Ancestry) - (£).[2][3] |
| Berkswell, Warwickshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1850-1910 | 1850-1910 | 1825-1910 | 1825-1910 | ||
Bishop's Transcripts deposited at the Lichfield Record Office Bap 1665-1836 Marr 1665-1836 Bur 1665-1836
- 1535 - 1984 - England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1984 at FamilySearch — index and images
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Warwickshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ (John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) Adapted. Date Accessed November 21, 2013.
- ↑ 'Warwickshire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1910,', Ancestry, accessed 1 July 2014.
- ↑ 'Warwickshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1910,', Ancestry, accessed 26 August 2014.
