Stoke Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Stoke is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1574
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1664

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Stoke Parish Registers

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials

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

Stoke Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1535-1812

Stoke 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.

Stoke 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.

Stoke Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910

Directors of Companies

The following people were listed in the Directory of Directors 1881 as directors of companies who were either living in Stoke or the company was based in Stoke or both.

Boughton – Mr Edmund Boughton, Stoke, near Coventry, is a director of the –
Birmingham Dudley and District Banking Company Limited
Birmingham Exchange Buildings Company Limited

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STOKE, a parish, with a village, in Foleshill district, Warwick; 2 miles ENE of Coventry r. station. It has a post-office, of the name of Stoke-Green, under Coventry. Acres, 920. Real property, £9,643. Pop. in 1851, 1,031; in 1861, 1,555. Houses, 325. The manor belongs to the corporation of Coventry. There are many fine villas. Ribbon-weaving is carried on. The living is a vicarage, united with Walsgrave, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £333. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and has been repaired and enlarged. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.

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

Maps

British National Grid Ref: SP 35735 79490
BNG Eastings, Northings: 435735, 279490
Latitude, Longitude: 52.412253, -1.476072

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: 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