Foleshill Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Foleshill is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish church: St Laurence

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1564
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, General Baptist, General Baptist New Connexion, Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

Adjacent Parishes

Foleshill Parish Registers

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials

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

Foleshill St Laurence Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1535-1812

Foleshill Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms 1813-1910

Foleshill St Laurence Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms 1813-1910

Foleshill St Paul 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.

Foleshill Warwickshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1910

Foleshill St Laurence Warwickshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1910

Foleshill St Paul 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.

Foleshill St Laurence Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910

Foleshill St Paul Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910

Parish Records

Foleshill Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FOLESHILL, a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Warwick. The town stands adjacent to the Oxford canal and the Coventry and Nuneaton railway, 2½ miles NNE of Coventry; has a station on the railway, and a post office under Coventry; and participates in the ribbon, silk, and other manufactures of Coventry. 

The parish comprises 2,594 acres. Real property, £23,950; of which £2,437 are in mines. Pop., 8,140. Houses, 1,913. Foleshill Manor House and Foleshill Hall are chief residences. Iron-founding, coal-mining, and brick-making are carried on. Both the head living and another living called St. Paul’s are vicarages in the diocese of Worcester. Value of the former, £353; of the latter, £180. Patron of the former, the Lord Chancellor; of the latter, the Vicar of F. The head church was enlarged in 1816; and has an ancient font. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and two national schools.

The sub-district contains also the parish of Exhall and Bedworth, and the hamlet of Keresley. Acres, 7,799. Pop., 15,327. Houses, 3,503.

The district includes likewise the sub-district of Sowe, containing the parishes of Sowe, Anstey, Shilton, Withybrook, Wyken, Stoke, and Binley, and the hamlet of Willenhall. Acres, 19,389. Poor-rates in 1862, £11,555. Pop. in 1851, 18,527; in 1861, 19,997. Houses, 4,556. Marriages in 1860, 114; births, 804. of which 54 were illegitimate; deaths, 407, of which 185 were at ages under 5 years, and 14 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,535; births, 8,161; deaths, 4,880.

The places of worship, in 1851, were 12 of the Church of England, with 5, 909 sittings; 6 of Independents, with 2,008 s.; 8 of Baptists, with 2,141 s.; 5 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 818 s.; 6 of Primitive Methodists, with 1,126 s.; and 1 of the Wesleyan Association, with 150 s. The schools were 15 public day schools, with 1,090 scholars; 8 private day schools, with 268 s.; 26 Sunday schools, with 2,074 s.; and 1 evening schools for adults, with 12 s. There are two workhouses in Foleshill, and another in Exhall.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

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.

Bushill Serjeant, Foleshill, Coventry, Warwickshire, builder, May 26. 1829.

Eld George, Foleshill, Coventry, miller, Dec. 25, 1838.

Elliott George, Foleshill, Coventry, ribbon manufacturer, Мaу 26, 1829.

Spencer William, Coventry, and Foleshill, ribbon manufacturer, Jan. 26, 1830.

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

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