Shelf Mark: WA
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
County-wide sources:
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists : Gloucestershire [&] Warwickshire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National index of parish registers, vol. 5 South Midlands & Welsh border comprising the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire. London: SoG, 1976. [TB/PR]
Parish register copies: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office information leaflet no. 7. Rev. edn. [WA/G 30]
Parish registers in Birmingham reference library. Rev. edn. [WA/R 57]
Parish registers of Warwickshire (earlier than the year 1813) [WA/G 29]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org
British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]
Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry unwanted certificates 2nd & 3rd collections [WA/G 31 & 38]
Extracts & notes from parish registers, court rolls, charters etc., various parishes & families, Warwickshire & Worcestershire [Manuscript.] [WO/G 9]
General strays A-Z: [showing people from Staffordshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire recorded in other events such as baptisms, marriages, burials, MIs, removal orders and the like] - Warwickshire [Microfiche.] [WA/GEN/83943/1-18]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Warws., Leics. & Rutland QM: Z 1623-1837, 1636-1815, 1646-1762, M 1648-1837, 1659-1794, 1668-1711, B 1659-1837, 1661-1836, 1636-1781 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3375]
Unrelated certificates index [5th collection] [WA/G 40]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
16th century marriages (1538-1600) [Store A (UK/REG)]
Abstracts of the marriage bonds & allegations of the Diocese of Lichfield ... 1711-16, A-Z by groom [Microfiche.] [ML/LIC/57043/1-6 & ML/LIC/82806/1-6]
Leicestershire Marriage Licences 1570-1729 - indexes by name & place to British Record Society, vol. 38 [Photocopy.] [LE/R 98]
Lichfield Joint Record Office: marriage bonds of the Peculiars (1615-1748) [Typescript.] [ML/GEN]
Marriage bonds of the Peculiars of the Diocese of Lichfield: miscellaneous, 1628-1748 [Typescript.] [ML/LIC]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
Index of burial grounds in Birmingham, Warwickshire, Worcestershire & Staffordshire: Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 19 [Typescript.] [WA/M 28]
The Mill Stephenson list of monumental brasses in the British Isles: Warwickshire: Warwickshire tracts, vol. 2. Rev. edn. [WA/G 5]
Monumental inscriptions: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office information leaflet no. 11. Rev. edn. [WA/G 30]
Rambles round the Edge Hills & the vale of the Red Horse. 2nd edn. [WA/G 27]
A revised list of monumental brasses in the British Isles, 1: the county of Warwickshire: Warwickshire tracts, vol. 2 [WA/G 5]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. Bedworth 1821 census, Church Lawford 1801 census, Farnborough 1821 census, Southam 1821 census, Warwick (St. Nicholas) 1811 & 1821 census
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
WARWICKSHIRE - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
WARWICKSHIRE - DIRECTORIES
or WARWICKSHIRE - POLL BOOKS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at www.findmypast.com (formerly 1837online)
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court
Or if you do not know the name of the church court:
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
WARWICKSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Warwickshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Alcester | Aldestry or Austrey | Allesley | Alne, Great | Alveston | Ansley | Ansty | Arley | Arrow | Ashow | Astley | Aston | Aston Cantlow | Aston juxta Birmingham | Atherstone on Stour | Attleborough | Austrey | Avon Dassett | Baddesley Clinton | Baginton | Balsall | Barcheston | Barford | Barston | Barton on the Heath | Baxterley | Bearley | Beaudesert | Bedworth | Bentley | Berkswell | Bidford on Avon | Billesley | Bilton, New | Binley | Binton | Birdingbury | Birmingham | Bishops Itchington | Bishops Tachbrook | Bishopston | Bourton on Dunsmore | Brailes | Brinklow | Brownsover | Bubbenhall | Budbrooke | Bulkington | Burmington | Burton Dassett | Burton Hastings | Butlers Marston | Caldecote | Chadshunt | Charlecote | Cherington | Chesterton | Chilvers Coton | Church Lawford | Churchover | Claverdon | Clifton upon Dunsmore | Coleshill | Combroke | Compton, Little | Compton, Long | Compton Verney | Compton Wynyates | Corley | Coughton | Coventry | Cubbington | Curdworth | Draycott | Dunchurch
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Warwickshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Edgbaston | Elmdon | Ettington | Exhall | Farnborough | Fenny Compton | Fillongley | Foleshill | Foxcote | Frankton | Gaydon | Grandborough | Grendon | Halford | Hampton in Arden | Hampton Lucy | Harborough Magna | Harbury | Haseley | Hatton | Henley in Arden | Hillmorton | Hockley | Honiley | Honington | Hunningham | Idlicote | Ilmington | Ipsley | Itchington, Long | Kenilworth | Keresley with Coundon | Kineton | Kinwarton | Knowle | Ladbroke | Lapworth | Lea Marston | Leamington Hastings | Leamington Priors | Leamington Spa | Leek Wootton | Lighthorne | Lillington | Loxley | Mancetter | Marton | Maxstoke | Merevale | Meriden | Middleton | Milverton | Milverton, New or Leamington Priors St Mark | Monks Kirby | Moreton Morell | Morton Bagot | Napton on the Hill | Newbold on Avon | Newbold on Stour | Newbold Pacey | Newton Regis | Norton Lindsey | Nuneaton | Offchurch | Oldberrow | Oscott | Oxhill | Packington, Great | Packington, Little | Pillerton Hersey | Pillerton Priors | Polesworth | Preston Bagot | Princethorpe | Priors Hardwick | Priors Marston
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Warwickshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Radford Semele | Radway | Ratley | Rowington | Rugby | Ryton on Dunsmore | Salford Priors | Seckington | Sheldon | Sherbourne | Shilton | Shottery | Shotteswell | Shuckburgh, Lower | Shuckburgh, Upper | Shustoke | Shuttington | Snitterfield | Solihull | Southam | Spernall | Stivichall | Stockingford | Stockton | Stoke | Stoneleigh | Stratford upon Avon | Stretton on Dunsmore | Stretton on the Fosse | Studley | Styvechale | Sutton Coldfield | Sutton under Brailes | Tanworth | Tanworth in Arden | Temple Balsall | Temple Grafton | Tysoe | Ufton | Ullenhall | Walsgrave on Sowe | Wappenbury | Warmington | Warton | Warwick | Wasperton | Water Orton | Weddington | Weethley | Wellesbourne | Weston on Avon | Weston under Wetherley | Westwood | Whatcote | Whichford | Whitacre, Nether | Whitacre, Over | Whitchurch | Whitnash | Willey | Willoughby | Wilnecote | Wishaw | Withybrook | Wixford | Wolfhamcote | Wolford, Great | Wolford, Little | Wolston | Wolverton | Wolvey | Wootton Wawen | Wormleighton | Wroxall | Wyken
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