Bearley, Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Bearley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1546
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1616

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Adjacent Parishes

Bearley Parish Registers

These records, which span both Warwickshire and Worcestershire archives, include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Bearley, Worcestershire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Bearley, Worcestershire Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Bearley, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Bearley, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BEARLEY, a parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwick; on the Stratford branch of the Oxford and Birmingham railway, and near the Birmingham canal, 4 miles NNW of Stratford. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stratford-on-Avon. Acres, 810. Real property, £1,348. Pop., 238. Houses, 54. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £62. Patron, King’s College, Cam bridge. The church is old.

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

Bearley, a parochial chapelry in the Snitterfield division of the hund. of Barlichway, county of Warwick; 4 miles north-north-west, on the post-road to Henley-in-Arden, and in the neighbourhood of the Birmingham and Stratford-on-Avon canal. Living, a perpetual curacy, not in charge, in the archd. and dio. of Worcester, subject to the vicarage of Wootton-Wawen; valued in the parliamentary returns at £49 13s.; gross income £64; in the patronage of King’s college, Cambridge. There are a daily and a Sunday school here. Pop., in 1801, 165; In 1831, 230. Houses 49. Acres 810. A.P. £1,135. Poor rates, in 1837, £101

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

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Bearley (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stratford-upon-Avon, Snitterfield division of the hundred of Barlichway, S. division of the county of Warwick, 4 ¼ miles (NNW) from Stratford; containing 231 inhabitants, and comprising 939 acres. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £62; patrons, Provost and Fellows of King’s College, Cambridge; impropriator, John Phillips, Esq. There is a school in which the greater portion of the children are paid for by the wealthier landowners.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV

Historical Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stratford on Avon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Warwick
  • Poor Law Union: Stratford on Avon
  • Hundred: Barlinchway
  • Province: Canterbury