Wilnecote, Warwickshire Genealogy
| Wilnecote, Warwickshire | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Hemlingford |
| County | Warwickshire |
| Poor Law Union | Tamworth |
| Registration District | Tamworth |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1837; For more records see Tamworth | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Tamworth |
| Diocese | Lichfield |
| 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]
WILNECOTE, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Tamworth, Tamworth division of the hundred of Hemlingford, N. division of the county of Warwick, 2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Tamworth. [1]
Wilnecote is a chapelry of Tamworth, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Tamworth Castle and Castle Liberty.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wilnecote and Castle Liberty like this:
WILNECOTE, a township in Tamworth parish, and a chapelry partly also in Polesworth parish, Warwick. The township lies on Watling-street, 1 mile W of the erby and Birmingham railway, and 2½ SE of Tamworth; and has a post-office under Tamworth, and a r. station jointly with Fazeley. Real property, £4,289; of which £250 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 824; in 1861, 1,350. Houses, 267. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of coal mines. The property is much subdivided. W. Hall, Dosthill House, and Wilnecote Hall are chief residences. Bricks and tiles are made.—The chapelry was constituted in 1856. Pop. in 1861, 1,654. Houses, 329. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £178. Patron, the Vicar of Tamworth. The church is tolerable; and there are an Independent chapel and a national school.
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]
| AC = Warwickshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials (Ancestry) - (£).[2][3] |
| Wilnecote, Warwickshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1825-1910 | 1825-1910 | 1850-1910 | 1850-1910 | ||
Deposited records held at the Staffordshire Record Office former chapelry of Tamworth St Editha EP [See St Editha for earlier entries] Baptisms 1763-1783, 1837-2001Marriages 1851-1998.
Bishops Transcripts held at Lichfield Record Office Baptisms 1860-1862
The mission Churches of Wilnecote St Catherine (Two Gates) and Wilnecote St Matthew Hockley have no deposited record holdings.
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Information about the parish may be found on Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks. Records are also available at the Warwickshire County Record Office.
Non-Conformists (All other Religions)[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
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.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Tamworth Poor Law Union, Staffordshire
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]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 581-584. Date accessed: 09 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Warwickshire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1910,', Ancestry, accessed 1 July 2014.
- ↑ 'Warwickshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1910,', Ancestry, accessed 15 July 2014. Described as 'Wilmcote.'
