Wyken Warwickshire Family History Guide

Wyken is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish church: St Mary Magdalen

Parish registers begin: 1600

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

• Coventry
• Combe Fields
• Foleshill
• Binley
• Walsgrave on Sowe
• Stoke

Parish History

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Wyken, a parish in Foleshill district, Warwick; 3 miles NE by E of Coventry r. station. Post-town, Coventry. Acres, 670. Real property, £2,264; of which £550 are in mines. Pop., 148. Houses, 29. The manor belongs to Earl Craven. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £115. Patron, Earl Craven. The church is good.

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

Wyken, 3 miles N. E. Coventry. P. 115.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831

Wyken, a parish in the county of the city of Coventry, 3 miles (N. E. by E.) from Coventry, containing 79 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Earl Craven.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Warwickshire, Wyken – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Mary Magdalene Church, Wyken, Warwickshire
Author: Maxwell, K. (Kenneth); Arden, Eileen; Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry

England, Warwickshire, Wyken – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wyken, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Warwickshire, Wyken – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Wyken, 1662-1846
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wyken (Warwickshire)

Church records, 1618-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wyken (Warwickshire)

Parish registers for Wyken, 1600-1942
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wyken (Warwickshire); Warwickshire (England). County Record Office

England, Warwickshire, Wyken – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Wyken, Warwick, England ; christenings, 1767-1875
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Warwickshire, Wyken – Occupations ( 1 )
Parish registers for Wyken, 1600-1942
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wyken (Warwickshire); Warwickshire (England). County Record Office

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Administration

• County: Warwickshire
• Civil Registration District: Foleshill
• 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: Coventry
• Poor Law Union: Foleshill
• Hundred: Knightlow
• Province: Canterbury