Austrey, Warwickshire Genealogy

Parish History
Austrey is an Ancient Parish in the northern tip county of Warwickshire near Newton Regis Newton Regis, Warwickshire and No Man's Heath, and close to the Leicestershire villages of Appleby Magna, Leicestershire, Norton juxta Twycross, Leicestershire  Orton on the Hill, Leicestershire. The village was sometimes spelt 'Alestry'.

AUSTREY St. Nicholas parish, in the Tamworth division of the hundred of Hemlingford, Austrey had a parish church by 1155. The oldest part of the present Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas is the Early English Gothic tower, which was built in the middle of the 13th century. The remainder of the church was rebuilt early in the 14th century in the Decorated Gothic style The Gothic Revival architect Ewan Christian restored the chancel with new windows in 1844-45.

The bell-tower has a ring of five bells. Three including the tenor were cast by Hugh Watts II of Leicester in 1632.Another was cast by Thomas Rudhall of Gloucester in 1770. The treble was recast by James Barwell of Birmingham in 1911 from another 1632 bell by Hugh Watts.

St. Nicholas' parish is now part of the Benefice of All Saints, North Warwickshire along with the parishes of Newton Regis, Seckington, Shuttington and Warton.

Austrey, is a parish in the district of Tamworth, Warwickshire; it is 4 miles NE of Polesworth railway station, and 6½ miles E N of Tamworth. The post office is under Atherstone. There is a Baptist 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.

See West Midlands BMDand Staffordshire BMD

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Information about the parish may be found on Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks. Records are also available at the Warwickshire County Record Office.

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain