No Mans Heath, Warwickshire Genealogy

England   Warwickshire

Parish History
No Mans Heath is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

NO-MAN'S-HEATH, an extra-parochial liberty, in the counties of Derby, Leicester, Stafford, and Warwick; containing 30 inhabitants.

From: 'Ninebanks - Norfolk', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 416-421. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51181 Date accessed: 31 March 2011.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described No Mans Heath like this:

NO-MANS-HEATH, an extra-parochial tract in the district of Tamworth and county of Warwick; at the meeting-point with the counties of Stafford, Leicester, and Derby, 6 miles N E by E of Tamworth. Acres, 9. Pop., 75. Houses, 20. A church was erected in 1863.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Poor Law Unions
Tamworth Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

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.

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