Mancetter, Warwickshire Genealogy

Parish History
Mancetter, or Manchester, is a village and a parish in Atherstone district, Warwickshire. The village stands adjacent to Watling Street on the River Anker, it is also on the boundary with Leicestershire, and the Trent Valley railway; it is 1 mile SE of Atherstone. The parish contains the township of Atherstone and the hamlets of Oldbury and Hartshill; and its post town is Atherstone. There are three dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, as well as two others which are in Atherstone.

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
Mancetter 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.

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