Welcome to the Warwickshire Family History section of our website. This has been created to help Genealogists and Family History researchers searching for lost ancestors and relatives that were living in Warwickshire – including the town in the north of the county- Nuneaton. There are many resources for Family History research in Warwickshire:
Warwickshire Family History Society
– This society’s new website is updated monthly with news and Family History articles. No membership is required.
Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Family History Society
– This is a growing society which in 1998 changed its name from Nuneaton Family History Society to encompass the whole of North Warwickshire. This society offers Quarterly Family History Journals free with membership, which itself is a very modest annual fee.
Warwickshire County Record Office
– This is a record office which offers historical records of the county of Warwickshire and the people within, from the 12th Century onwards. You’ll find parish records, school records, hospital records, maps, photographs and much more.
We have teamed up with the popular family history website FindMyPast to bring you direct links to their Warwickshire family history records. We hope these will assist you with your research:
Births, marriages and deaths
Births
Warwickshire Baptisms
– Learn your ancestors birth place, parents’ names and “even the name of the officiant”.
Marriages
Warwickshire Banns
– Records from Southam and Ufton in the county.
Warwickshire Marriages
– Records from parishes across Warwickshire.
Burials – including monumental inscriptions
Warwickshire Burials
– Records also include monumental inscriptions from Clifton Road Cemetery in the town of Rugby.
Warwickshire Monumental Inscriptions
Parish registers
Warwickshire, Birmingham, St Martin In The Bull Ring Parish Registers 1554-1929
– Discover if your ancestors resided in Birmingham between these years.
Warwickshire Newspaper Archives
Local Newspaper Archives can provide invaluable information for Family Historians. Information can often be found in these historic papers that is not available in Parish Records, or local censuses. We are able to provide a direct link to Warwickshire Newspaper Archives from a variety of newspapers and covering different time periods. Here is the link and information on the historic Warwickshire Newspapers and time periods covered:
British Newspaper Archive – historic newspaper records in the Warwickshire area
– Here is the link for the Historical Newspapers, listed by year of issue below:
Local newspaper records | Record Years |
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Leamington Spa Courier | 1828-1954 |
Rugby Advertiser | 1853-1854 1856-1871 1874-1889 1915-1931 1934-1957 |
Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser | 1823-1827 1829-1834 1836-1845 1866-1871 1874-1875 1878-1891 1897-1956 |
Nuneaton Advertiser | 1868-1888 1890-1895 |
Leamington Advertiser, and Beck's List of Visitors | 1849-1864 1866-1871 |