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*[http://www.nnwfhs.org.uk/ Nuneaton and North Warwickshire FHS] | *[http://www.nnwfhs.org.uk/ Nuneaton and North Warwickshire FHS] | ||
Revision as of 18:48, 30 October 2007
Contents
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
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
Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.
By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
Record Office Lookup Contacts
Cemetery Lookup Requests
Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.
By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
Cemetery Lookup Contacts
- Nuneaton Dawnie and her 3 munchkins
- Shirley (West Midlands) JBee
- South Birmingham JBee
Photo Offers
Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please PM the member with your queries.
Links
- County Record Office
- Birmingham City Archives
- Warwickshire BMD
- West Midlands BMD
- Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council -Important Notice
Local History Society
- Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry
- Coventry FHS
- Nuneaton and North Warwickshire FHS
- Rugby Family History Group
- Warwickshire History Society
- West Midlands History Society
OPC
Archives
- IGI Warwickshire A-L
- IGI Warwickshire N-Z
- Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire genealogy
- Transcriptions from Warwickshire records
- Online Databases for Stratford-Upon-Avon
- 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
- Digital Handsworth, a vast collection of historical documents, maps, etc
- The Modern Records Centre
Family and Social History
- Warwickshire Workhouses
- Warwick County Prison Inmates 1800-1900
- John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs
- Tithe Apportionments
- Birmingham Lunatic Asylum - Cases
- Birmingham Area WW1 & 2 Family Memorial Inscriptions
- List of Illegitimacy Orders
Maps & Photographs
Countywide Interest
Specific Town Village Interest
- People who have a connection with the City of Coventry,criminals, owned property, etc
- Birmingham History Webring
- Birmingham History and Genealogy
- 1836 Inhabitants of Chilvers Coton.
- Coventry's historic past
- Coventry during the Blitz, Includes a list of Victims
- Dunchurch
- Nuneaton Society
- Leamington Priors
- Perry Barr, Photographs and comprehensive name indexes
- Quinton National School registers also Woodhouse Road School
- Register of Burials Parish of Christ Church, The Quinton,1840 to 1868
- Coventry Collections
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