Bedworth, Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Bedworth is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Other places in the parish include: Collycroft and Colly Croft.

Parish church: All Saints

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Fairs: April 6, May 30, August 251

Adjacent Parishes

Bedworth Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Bedworth, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Marriage and Banns Records

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

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

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

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

Parish Records

Bedworth Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records – Parish Accounts, Parish Accounts, Poor Law Pay, Parish Accounts, Rates, Parish Accounts, Weekly Pay, Parish Rates, Parish Rates, Examinations, Parish Rates, Rents, Weekly Pay, Poor Law Pay, Poor Law Rents

Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Cougreve Henry; and Richard Hill, jun.; Bedworth and Coventry, and Wood street, Cheapside, silk and ribbon manufacturers, March 25, 1826.

Eyre George, Coventry, and Bedworth, ribbon manufacturer, Oct. 23, 1829.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BEDWORTH, a town and a parish in Foleshill district, Warwick. The town stands adjacent to the Coventry canal and the Coventry and Nuneaton railway, 3½ miles S of Nuneaton; and has a station on the railway, a post office under Nuneaton, and two chief inns. It carries on a manufacture of gauze ribbons, and a large trade in coals, lime, and bricks; and has a fair on Whit wednesday. Pop., 3,968. Houses, 888. The parish comprises 2,157 acres. Real property, £15,345; of which £2,700 are in mines. Pop., 5,656. Houses, 1,239. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £562. Patron, the Lord of the Manor. The church is a modern edifice with square embattled tower; and was enlarged in 1850. There are three dissenting chapels, two free schools, and very extensive alms-houses; the last in the form of three sides of a cloistered quadrangle, in later Gothic, built in 1840, at a cost of £8,500. The almshouses have £1,176 of income, and other charities £20.

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

Bedworth, 5 m. N. Coventry. P. 4253

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 – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

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

1. History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Warwickshire; Francis White & Co.; 1850.