Wyken, Warwickshire Genealogy

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Guide to Wyken, Warwickshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Warwickshire
 * Hundred = Coventry
 * Poor Law Union = Foleshill
 * Registration District = Foleshill
 * PRbegin = 1600
 * BTbegin = 1662
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Worcester
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 * Rural Deanery = Coventry
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 * Probate Court = Pre-1837 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory); Post-1836 - Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
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 * Archive = Warwickshire County Record Office

Parish History
WYKEN, a parish, in the union of Foleshill, county of Warwick, 3 miles (N. E. by E.) from Coventry.

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
Wyken Parish Registers held at the Family History Library

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
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