Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire Genealogy

Parish History
Hampton-In-Arden, is a village in Meriden district, and the parish is partly in Solihull district, Warwickshire. The village is on the river Blythe, contiguous to the Hampton Junction station of the Northwestern and Midland railways, it is 9¼ miles SE of Birmingham; the post office is under Birmingham. The parish includes also the hamlets of Kinwalsey, Knowle, Balsall, and Nuthurst. There is an Independent chapel.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church Records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Warwickshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain