Chilvers Coton Warwickshire Family History Guide
Chilvers Coton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.
Other places in the parish include: Griff, Arbury Park, and Arbury.
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1654
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1674
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHILVERS-COTON, a village and a parish in Nuneaton district, Warwick. The village stands adjacent to the Coventry canal and the Coventry and Nuneaton railway, 1 mile S of Nuneaton; and has a station on the railway.
The parish includes also Griff hamlet, Arbury Park, and Nuneaton workhouse; and its post town is Nuneaton. Acres, 3,730. Real property, £12,884. Pop., 2,764. Houses, 624. Ribbon-weaving and coal mining are carried on.
The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Worcester. Value, £106. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good; and there are Independent, Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic chapels, a large free school, and charities £250. See Arbury.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CHILVERS-COTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Nuneaton, Atherstone division of the hundred of Hemlingford, N. division of the county of Warwick, ¾ of a mile (S. W.) from Nuneaton; containing, with the hamlet of Griff, 2508 inhabitants.
In the reign of Henry II., Ralph de Sudley founded an Augustine priory at Erdbury, in this parish, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the revenue of which, at the Dissolution, was £122. 8. 6. The site was granted, in the reign of Elizabeth, to Sir Edmund Anderson, who destroyed the monastic buildings, and with the materials erected a spacious quadrangular mansion, which, in 1586, he exchanged with John Newdegate, of Harefield, in the county of Middlesex, for the manor of Harefield.
The ancient house was re-modelled by the late Sir Roger Newdegate, in the later style of English architecture; the apartments are spacious and richly ornamented, and the park is pleasingly varied. The present possessor is Charles Newdegate Newdegate, Esq., who also owns Harefield.
The parish comprises by measurement 4180 acres. The manufacture of ribbons is carried on extensively; and there are some coalworks in the parish, which is intersected by the Coventry canal, the rateable annual value of the coal-works being £798, and of the canal property £1022. The river Anker bounds the parish on the east, and it is crossed by the road from Nuneaton to Coventry.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £7. 4., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £106. The church has been recently enlarged.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; and two national schools are supported by funds given by the late Sir Roger Newdegate. Adjoining the precincts of the park is an ancient residence of the Knights Templars, granted to them by Ralph de Sudley.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Marriage Allegations
The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.
HALE, William, of Chilvers Coton, co. Warwick, 34, b., & Mary King, of Kingsley, 24, sp., at Binsted, 5 Jan., 1831. Aff.
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Directories
Kelly’s Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire 1854
ARBURY is a small hamlet in the parish of Chilvers Coton, 2 miles from Nuneaton station.
Newdegate Charles Newdigate esq MP Arbury hall
TRADERS
Baker Chas miller & farmer Arbury mill
Clark Thomas farmer South farm
Evans John farmer
Evans Samuel gardener
Letters through Nuneaton
Source: Post office directory of Birmingham, Warwickshire, and part of Staffordshire (of Birmingham, with Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire) [afterw.] Kelly’s directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire By Kelly’s directories, ltd. 1854
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Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Nuneaton
- 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: Nuneaton
- Hundred: Hemlingford
- Province: Canterbury