Coventry St Thomas, Warwickshire Genealogy

Guide to Coventry St Thomas, Warwickshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Coventry, is an ancient city, in the hundred of Knightlow, Warwickshire, it is 10 miles N E from Warwick, 18 miles S E from Birmingham, it contains the hamlets of Radford, Whitley, and Keresley. The church district named St. Thomas' was formed out of the parish of St. John, in 1844. There are places of worship in the town for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics. Additional information:

Coventry St Thomas Albany Road Coventry was an ecclesiastical parish.

The church was designed by the Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley, and was built in 1848–49. Its architectural style was Decorated, and its plan consisted of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with vestries, a north porch, and a northwest bell turret. The church was redundant by the 1970's and was demolished in 1976. It was designated Grade II listed building by English Heritage.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Warwickshire ($)
 * Genealogist Parish Registers - Warwickshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * Ancestry Collection Birmingham, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1919 ($)

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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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