Baxterley, Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Baxterley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1654
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1542

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Baxterley Parish Registers

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Baxterley Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1535-1812

Baxterley Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms 1813-1910

Marriages and Banns

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Baxterley Warwickshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1910

Parish Records

Baxterley Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records – Wills, Charts, Logs, Newspaper Clippings, Antiques

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BAXTERLEY, a parish in Atherstone district, Warwick; 2 miles ENE of Kingsbury r. station, and 3½ W by S of Atherstone. Post Town, Kingsbury, under Tamworth. Acres, 874. Real property, £2,115. Pop., 273. Houses, 54. The property is divided among a few. Baxterley Hall is the seat of Apsley Smith, Esq. Coal is largely worked. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £262. Patrons, the Lord Chancellor and another. The church is not good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Baxterley, a parish in the Atherstone division of the hund. of Hemlingford, union of Atherstone county of Warwick; 3½ miles west of Atherstone, in the neighbourhood of the Birmingham and Derby railway. Living, a discharged vicarage, formerly in the archd. of Coventry and dio. of Lichfield and Coventry, now in the dio. of Worcester; valued at £5; gross income £262; in the patronage of the Crown, and T. Boultbee, Esq. Pop., in 1801, 194; in 1831, 189. Houses 42. Acres 850. A.P. £1,406. Poor rates, in 1837, £118.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Baxterley, 4 miles W. Atherstone. P. 228

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

Maps

National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Atherstone
  • 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: Atherstone
  • Hundred: Hemlingford
  • Province: Canterbury