Berkswell, Warwickshire Family History Guide
Berkswell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire. Barston is a chapelry of Berkswell.
Alternative names: Berkeswell
Parish church: St John the Baptist
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1665
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BERKESWELL, or Berkswell, a parish in Meriden district, Warwick; on the Birmingham and Stafford railway, 6 miles W of Coventry. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Coventry. Acres, 5,958. Real property, £10,872. Pop., 1,624. Houses, 363. The property is much subdivided. Berkeswell House is the seat of T. Walker, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Barston, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £976. Patrons, the Misses Shirreff. The church is Norman. There are a neat endowed school with £50 a year, recent alms-houses with £155, and other charities £45.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Berkeswell, 6 m. E. Solihull. P. 1504.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840
BERKESWELL, a parish in the Solihull division of the hund. of Hemlingford, union of Meriden, county of Warwick; 6 miles west of Coventry, on the line of the London and Birmingham railway, and in the neighbourhood of the Birmingham and Warwick canal.
Living, a rectory united with the curacy of Barston, formerly in the archd. of Coventry and dio. of Lichfield and Coventry, now in the dio. of Worcester; valued at £14 12s. 6£d.; gross income £800. Patron, in 1835, Colonel Desbrowe.
A daily school and several other charitable establishments are supported by the produce of a portion of land, which now yields about £70 per annum. The parish possesses four additional daily schools, an infant school, containing 26 females, supported by Lady Wilmot, and two Sunday schools, maintained by Sir T. E. Eardley Wilmot, Bart. Various minor charities connected with the parish produce about £40 annually.
Pop., in 1801, 1,192; in 1831, 1,450. Houses 277. Acres 6,360. A. P. £7,489. Poor rates, in 1837, £562.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.
Parish Registers
Marriages Out of Parish
| Details | Place of Marriage |
|---|---|
| William Bradnock, p. Birkswell, & Mary Barnwell, p. B., lic. 4 Aug. 1783 | Bourton on Dunsmore |
Parish Records
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Directories
Berkswell Bennett’s Business Directory for Warwickshire, 1914
Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Meriden
- Probate Court: Pre-1837 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1836 – Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Arden
- Poor Law Union: Meriden
- Hundred: Hemlingford
- Province: Canterbury