Coventry St Michael, Warwickshire Family History Guide

Coventry St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Other places in the parish include: Radford, Whitley and Keresley.

Parish church: St Michael

Parish registers begin: 1714

Nonconformists include: Baptist, General Baptist, General Baptist New Connexion, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian Unitarian, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

See also: Coventry Warwickshire Family History Guide

Radford

Radford, a considerable village and hamlet, in the parish of St. Michael, 1 mile N., inhabited principally by plush weavers. Whatmore Park, 1½ mile N.N. by E., contains a few scattered farms; and the seat of Edward Phillips, Esq., is in the hamlet of Radford1

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Radford, 1 m. N.W. Coventry. P. 251.

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

Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Radford, co. Warwick.

P.T. Coventry (91) 2m. NNE. Pop. 206.

A hamlet in that part of the parish of St. Michael which is in the county of the city of Coventry

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. III; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
William Berry, p. St. Michael, Coventry, & Elizabeth Watts, p. B. 31 Mar. 1777Bourton on Dunsmore
Robert Radburn, p. B., & Susanna Gray, s., p. St. Michael, Coventry, lic. 13 Apr. 1779Bourton on Dunsmore

Marriage Allegations

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

Day , Edward, of St. John’s, co . Devon, mariner, 21, b., & Mary Lever, of St. Michael’s, co. Warwick, w., at Portsmouth, 15 May, 1783.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

See also: Coventry Warwickshire Family History Guide

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

United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Coventry – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Coventry 1851 census index
Author: Coventry Family History Society

United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Coventry – Church history ( 2 )
St. Michael’s Baptist Church, Coventry, 1858-1908
Author: Soddy, Thomas E.

The steeple, bells, and ringers of Coventry Cathedral (formerly St. Michael’s Church) : with an account of the clock and chimes
Author: Pickford, Christopher J.

United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Coventry – Church records ( 7 )
Registers of St. Michael’s, Coventry, Warwickshire
Author: Tildesley, Norman W. (Norman William), 1900-; Church of England. St. Michael’s Church (Coventry, Warwickshire); Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry

Bishop’s transcripts for St. Michael’s Church, Coventry, 1663-1847
Author: Church of England. St. Michael’s Church (Coventry, Warwickshire)

The Bishop’s transcripts of the registers of St. Michael’s, Coventry, Warwickshire
Author: Tildesley, Norman W. (Norman William), 1900-; Woodburn, P., Mrs.; Merritt, A., Mrs.; Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry; Church of England. St. Michael’s Church (Coventry, Warwickshire)

Bishops’ transcripts of St. Michael’s church Coventry, Warwick County : baptisms, marriages, burials 1640-1726
Author: Tildesley, Norman W. (Norman William), 1900-; Church of England. St. Michael’s Church (Coventry, Warwickshire)

Parish registers for St. Michael’s Church, Coventry, 1670-1966
Author: Church of England. St. Michael’s Church (Coventry, Warwickshire); Warwickshire (England). County Record Office

Bishop’s transcripts for Keresley and Coundon, 1847-1852
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Keresley and Coundon (Warwickshire)

Parish registers for Keresley and Coundon, 1847-1932
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Keresley and Coundon (Warwickshire); Warwickshire (England). County Record Office

United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Coventry – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Coventry, St. Michael, Warws., Eng

United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Coventry – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor rate, 1732 to 1736, Much Park St. Ward, St. Michael’s parish
Author: Old, Barbara

Warwickshire Historical Directories

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Coventry
  • 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: Coventry
  • Hundred: Coventry Borough
  • Province: Canterbury