Hartshill Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Hartshill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Warwickshire, created in 1842 from Mancetter Ancient Parish. 

Other places in the parish include: Chapel End. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1848
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

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

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

HARTSHILL VILLAGE
HARTSHILL VILLAGE

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HARTSHILL, a village and a chapelry in Mancetter parish, Warwick. The village stands on the river Anker, on the end of a hilly plain, near Watling street, the Coventry canal, the Trent Valley railway, and the boundary with Leicester, 3 miles NNW of Nuneaton r. station.

It is supposed to occupy the Campus Martins of the Roman Manduessedum; and commands a view in which are seen 45 parish churches.

The chapelry includes also the hamlet of Chapel End; which has a post-office under Atherstone. Real property, £5,349; of which £398 are in quarries. Pop., 1,129. Houses, 269.

Ruins exist of a Norman castle, built in 1125 by Hugh de Hardreshull. A large wood extends from the W side of the village to nearly the camp at Oldbury. Excellent road metal is quarried; greenstone and iron ore abound; and manganese and copper ore are found. Ribbon making is carried on.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £135. Patron, the Vicar of Mancetter. The church is a modern edifice, in the Norman style. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, an endowed school with £37 a year, and a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Warwickshire, Hartshill – Church history ( 1 )
The Quakers of Hartshill
Author: Allen, Joan

England, Warwickshire, Hartshill – Church records ( 5 )
Births and baptisms, 1799-1837
Author: Chapel End Meeting (Hartshill, Warwickshire : Independent)

Parish registers for Hartshill, 1770-1929
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hartshill (Warwickshire)

Parish registers for Hartshill, 1848-1876
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hartshill (Warwickshire); Warwickshire (England). County Record Office

Society of Friends burial records for Worcester and Warwick Counties, England : 1865-1921

Society of Friends, Warwickshire North, church records, 1623-1890.
Author: Society of Friends. Warwickshire North Monthly Meeting (England)

England, Warwickshire, Hartshill – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Hartshill, Chapel End Meeting and Providence Chapel Ansley Independent, Warws., Eng

Parish register printouts of Hartshill, Warwick, England (Independent, Chapel End Meeting, and Providence Chapel, Ansley) ; christenings, 1789-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Warwickshire, Hartshill – Genealogy ( 1 )
Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Family History Society bonus disc 2014
Author: Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society; Astley, John, fl. 1810-1845

England, Warwickshire, Hartshill – Schools ( 1 )
Hartshill : Swain Stevens’ charitable gift 1744-1850 : a list of recipients
Author: Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Atherstone
  • 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: Atherstone
  • Hundred: Hemlingford
  • Province: Canterbury