Important: please read the explanation of
the scheme before contacting an Online Parish Clerk (OPC)
(if you have previously read this
explanation, jump to the list of parishes but please
remember that new information is being added to this explanation, as well
as to the table)
If you are looking for research help click on the initial letter of the parish
in which you are interested in the main table on this page (alternatively use
your browser's search/find facility). The table is arranged strictly alphabetically.
Little Packington is found among the Ls, not the Ps, and Bishops Itchington
is amongst the Bs, etc. The only exception to this is Great and Little Wolford
(which is one parish), which is among the Ws, as it it usually known as 'the
Wolfords'.
Quick links to external sources of information on family and local history:
News of a proposed national society/group for OPCs, and a national OPC web site
Transcripts of baptism, marriage and burial registers 1540 to 1850 for Whichford
Completion of the transcriptions of the 1861 and 1891 Census, thanks to all the transcribers, and the organisers Wendy Boland and Michael McDermott see Pickard's Pink Pages
New Essex OPC web site
Many new records available for indexed searches from (Rugby St Andrew's - Baptisms 1620-1876, Marriages 1620-1837, Burials 1620-1950
Rugby St Matthew's - Baptisms 1841-1875
Rugby Holy Trinity - Baptisms 1854-1879
Church Lawford - St Peter's Baptisms 1575-1900
Clifton on Dunsmore - St Mary's Baptisms 1594-1855, Marriages 1594-1837, Burials 1594-1855
Dunchurch - St Peter's Baptisms 1538-1900, Marriages 1538-1937, Burials 1538-1900
Newbold on Avon - St Botolph's Burials 1800-1882)
Many new BMD records for the Coventry and Foleshill section, thanks to Carole
A new street index for the 1891 census, thanks to Pickard
New baptism transcriptions for Coventry St Marks from 1869 to
19004, and Marriages from 1899-1905 and burials for Foleshill St Pauls from
1845-1965 (see the BMD site)
Birdingbury Marriages 1814-1836 and Halford Marriages 1813-1835 (see the BMD site)
New Attleborough - Baptisms 1848-75 and Burials 1848-77,
Priors Marston- Baptisms 1891-1895 and Burials 1891-98,
Stretton on Fosse - PRs from 1538 including baptisms and marriages to 1899,
and burials to 1921,
Westwood - Marriages from 1846-1876 see the BMD link
Burials in St Wilfred's Arley see the BMD link
Banns for Mancetter from 1788-1877 and the burials at
Hartshill from 1847-1877 see the BMD link
Marriage banns for the churches in Ansley - 1754 - 1878, Arley 1813 - 1853 and Nuneaton 1813 - 1831: link from
New arrangements for the Knowle OPC group Exhall and Wixford baptism transcriptions reinstated
The first Online Parish Clerk scheme was organised by a group
researching family history in Cornwall, and most subsequent schemes have followed
the lead of Cornwall in the way they are organised. I acknowledge that I have
drawn to a considerable extent on the Cornwall OPC web page in preparing this
web page for Warwickshire. Online Parish Clerks should not be confused with
the official Parish Clerk appointed by the Parish Council.
Online-Parish-Clerks (OPCs) are volunteers who collect and transcribe
records for a chosen specific parish. The data may include census, parish registers,
cemetery records, parish histories and other records. It takes time to transcribe
and accumulate material, so that an OPC may not yet have full data for all sources.
Each OPC decides what data to collect, how it will be organized and distributed
or displayed, and considers possible copyright, data protection and privacy
issues, and avoids misuse of data. Data provided by OPCs must not be used for
commercial purposes without the permission of the OPC.
The Warwickshire Online Parish Clerk volunteers provide information
to researchers at no charge. All information is provided to researchers on the
understanding that transcripts are, at best, a secondary source and only a guide.
As errors may occur in transcription, original documents should always be checked.
Some OPCs may be prepared to do Census lookups, but as the Censuses are now
all available online, either as transcriptions or images, it should not be necessary
to request Census lookups, but OPCs may be prepared to help with the interpretation
of difficult images.
OPCs welcome donations of parish and family information or data.
If you have information or data that you are willing to share, please contact
the relevant OPC.
The Warwickshire scheme started in January 2006, with about 10%
of the parishes covered by an OPC, and by August 2006 over 33% have an OPC (now
83 parishes).
Volunteering as an OPC If you are interested in becoming an OPC, or have further questions,
please contact the coordinator,
.
It is hoped that OPCs will be able to acknowledge an enquiry soon
after receiving it, but you should remember that an OPC may be busy, or may
be away on holiday. You may find that the OPC is unable to help you because
he or she does not have access to the information you require. If you have not
had any response at all from an OPC by four weeks, please let the coordinator
know.
The links to 'Tracing your Ancestors' in the
table are to the pages maintained by the Birmingham and Midland Society for
Genealogy and Heraldry (BMSGH).
You should note that if the name of a parish consists of two words, such as
Monks Kirby or Little Compton, the parish will sometimes be found in the BMSGH
list under the first word, and sometimes under the second word. The links are
to the parish pages: you will need to look at the index pages on Tracing your
Ancestors in Birmingham and Tracing your Ancestors in Warwickshire for the index
of parishes.
Parish Registers (or parts of Parish Registers) that are missing from
the International Genealogical Index Substantial parts of Parish Registers
are not covered by the International Genealogical Index. Those parts that are
missing, and some alternative sources of information, are shown in this web
page.
IGI Batch numbers You
may find that the coverage in the International Genealogical
Index may be more extensive than is suggested in the BMSGH pages (see Hugh
Wallis' IGI batch numbers for a more up-to-date list).
War Memorials Names on War Memorials for many parishes in Warwickshire can be found in 'The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour, 1914-2005: Vol 1 South Warwickshire' by Kenneth Fowler; copies at Alcester, Leamington, Rugby, Southam, Straftford and Warwick Libraries (see WILD for details)
The links to 'MI
surnames' (Monumental Inscriptions) are to the indexes prepared by volunteers
to the fiches sold by the BMSGH as a finding aid and to help discover if it
is worth buying a copy of the fiche from the BMSGH.
Places you cannot find in the table: If you cannot find the place you are looking for in this list, it
may not be a parish, or it may have an alternative name or spelling: try the
locations page. See also a key to the origin of Warwickshire place names (from the work of the English
Place Names Society).
Maps: If you click on the 'Map of location' link in the parish
entry, this will bring up a map (200Kb) showing where the parish is in Warwickshire
and the contiguous parishes (this map is used by kind permission of the staff
of the Warwickshire County Record Office). The parishes shown on this map are
the 1974 civil parishes, but usually this is the same as the ecclesiastical
parish (for more detail see the map prepared by the Institute of Heraldic and
Genealogical Studies or the Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers).
In most browsers you can enlarge the map if neccessary by resting the mouse
pointer within the image and clicking when the pointer turns into a plus sign
(in Internet Explorer 6.1 a special increase/decrease icon appears). The map
also shows the name (underlined) of the Poor Law Union and Registration District.
Please note that the list below contains (for the most part) only
the historic parishes, that is those in existence before the division of parishes
in the middle of the 19th century. Some parishes created a few years before
1837 are included. For information on other parishes created from the middle
of the 19th century onwards, consult 'Tracing your ancestors in Warwickshire
or Birmingham'.
1841 Street index and detailed maps of Birmingham: provided by the Birmingham City Archives
Parish registers and records (microfilm) at Bedworth Library (see WILD for details), as well as WCRO Phillimore printed Marriage Register 1591-1812 at Rugby, Stratford and Warwick Libraries (see WILD for details)
An 1831 Census with lists of householders exists (at Warwick CRO - DR
19/629) Surname index of burials (NNWFHS) at Bedworth, Bulkington, Nuneaton,
Rugby and Warwick Libraries (see WILD
for details)
A Census for 1821 exists with householders' names (at Warwick CRO - DR 225/411) Coventry Road Cemetery Burial Register at Atherstone Library (see WILD for details)
Phillimore printed Franciscan Baptism Registers for 1657-1824 and Marriage Register (St Peter's) (1658-1830) at Rugby, Stratford and Warwick Libraries (see WILD for details)
Chapel Ascote
A small extraparochial district near Bishops Itchington. There is a group
of extraparochial areas in this part of Warwickshire (Chapel Ascote, Hodnell,
Upper and Lower Radbourn, Watergall and Wills Pastures). Register entries
may be found in any of the neighbouring parishes: see the map
for what these are.
OPC has information on Coleshill Workhouse to 1836 Census lists of householders'
names for 1811, 1821 and 1831 exist (at Warwick CRO DR(B)100/127,
DR(B)100/128-129 and
DR(B)100/130)
For Coventry MIs, see main MI index Coventry Family History Society Holy Trinity Marriage index 1837-1842 by Carole Eales (now also available for marriages up to 1884) St Michael Marriage register 1838-1846 and 1847-1856, recreated from the burned registers by Carole Eales and Jacqui Simkins Coventry Voters Lists 1741, 1826 and 1834
MI
surnames by Carole Eales, updated by Pickard Trepess For the Exhall Gilbert Union (Poor Relief) Workhouse see Peter Higginbotham's site, under Foleshill
MI
surnames by Nicole Graham, updated by Pickard Trepess 1821 Census, images, and transcript by Simon Bartlett (the original is at Warwick CRO - DR299/16)
OPC has indexes to Census for 1851 to 1901, PRs Baptism, Marriage and
Burials, 1800-1899 Phillimore printed Marriage Register 1627-1812 at Rugby, Stratford and Warwick Libraries (see WILD for details)
OPC has Transcript of church records 1700 to present Transcript of Parish Register 1538-1653 at Atherstone, Nuneaton and Warwick Libraries (see WILD for details)
Doreen Agutter has transcript of registers 1538-1650
Fulbrook Note that there is also a place now called Fullbrook in Long Compton,
which in the 17th century was named as Fulbrook(e) in some documents. To
confuse things even more, this Fulbrook near Sherbourne was named in some
13th and 14th century documents as Full(e)brok (see The Place Names of Warwickshire,
English Place Names Society)
Warwickshire parishes: Burton Hastings, Hydes Pastures, Stretton Baskerville and Wolvey
For the Hinckley Workhouse see Peter Higginbotham's site, under Leicestershire (the records are at Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office, Wigston Magna)
