Coventry St Michael, Warwickshire Family History Guide

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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

Coventry St Michael Parish Registers

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials

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

Coventry St Michael 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.

Coventry St Michael Warwickshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1910

Burials

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

Coventry St Michael Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910

Coventry St Michael Strays

William Berry, p. St. Michael, Coventry, & Elizabeth Watts, p. B. 31 Mar. 1777 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

Robert Radburn, p. B., & Susanna Gray, s., p. St. Michael, Coventry, lic. 13 Apr. 1779 married at Bourton 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 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.

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: 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