Shustoke Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Shustoke is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire. Bentley is a chapelry of Shustoke. 

Other places in the parish include: Blythe. 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1674

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Shustoke Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Shustoke, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Shustoke, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Death and Burial Records

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

Shustoke, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Parish Records

Shustoke Warwickshire Parish Poor Law 1546-1904 – Apprenticeship Book 1802-1830, Miscellaneous Papers

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SHUSTOKE, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Meriden district, Warwick; 2 miles ESE of Whitacre-Junction r. station, and 3 ENE of Coleshill. It has a post-office under Birmingham. Acres, 3,844. Real property, £4,133. Pop., 558. Houses, 119. S. Hall is the seat of E. Tongue, Esq. Blythe Hall was the seat of the antiquary Dugdale, and belongs now to Capt. J. D. W. Digby.

The living is a vicarage, with Bentley chapelry, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £258. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The parochial church is early English, and has a tower and spire. Bentley church was built in 1844. There are an endowed school and alms houses with £49 a year, and other charities £5.

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

Shustoke with Blythe The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

 Shustake [sic] with Blythe, a parish in the Atherstone division of the hund. of Hemlingford, union of Meriden, county of Warwick; 3 miles north-east by east of Coleshill, in the line of the Birmingham and Derby Junction railway.

It includes the hamlet of Bentley. Living, a discharged vicarage, formerly in the archd. of Coventry and dio. of Lichfield and Coventry, now in the dio. of Worcester; rated at £5 7s., returned at £62; gross income £258. Tithes commuted in 1839; aggregate amount £377 8s. 11d. due to the impropriator, and £202 13s. 4d. to the vicar. Patron, the Lord-chancellor.

Here are 3 daily schools, one of which is endowed with £35 per annum, by Sir. Thomas Huntbach, who also founded and endowed almshouses for six poor persons. Other charities, in 1834, £4 11s. 10d. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £101 6s. Acres 3,160. Houses 135. A. P. £4,529. Pop., in 1801, 496; in 1831, 634.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

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: Meriden
  • 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: Meriden
  • Hundred: Hemlingford
  • Province: Canterbury