Wyken Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Wyken is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish church: St Mary Magdalen

Parish registers begin: 1600

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Wyken Parish Registers

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials

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

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

Wyken 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.

Wyken 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.

Wyken Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910

Parish Records

Wyken Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records

Parish History

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Wyken, a parish in Foleshill district, Warwick; 3 miles NE by E of Coventry r. station. Post-town, Coventry. Acres, 670. Real property, £2,264; of which £550 are in mines. Pop., 148. Houses, 29. The manor belongs to Earl Craven. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £115. Patron, Earl Craven. The church is good.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831

Wyken, a parish in the county of the city of Coventry, 3 miles (N. E. by E.) from Coventry, containing 79 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Earl Craven.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831

Maps

British National Grid Ref: SP 36645 80798
BNG Eastings, Northings: 436645, 280798
Latitude, Longitude: 52.423951, -1.462550

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