Knowle, Warwickshire Genealogy

England   Warwickshire  Warwickshire Parishes



Parish History
Knowle, is a village, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Solihull district, Warwickshire. The village stands on a hill, adjacent to the Birmingham and Warwick canal, it is 1¼ mile NE of the Oxford and Birmingham railway, and 9½ miles SE of Birmingham; the post office is under Birmingham. The chapelry is in Hampton-in-Arden parish. The sub-district contains Balsall hamlet, and two parishes.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Solihull Poor Law Union, Warwickshire

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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