DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Hemlingford. UNION: Meriden
ADJOINING PARISHES: Meriden, Allesley, Stoneleigh, Kenilworth, Balsall, Barston, Hampton-In-Arden.
Parish Registers: Christenings: 1653-1951, Marriages: 1654-1939
Burials: 1653-1971 Banns 1754-1795 1840-1931.
Tile Hill, (St
Oswald) Marriages: 1958-1982
Bishop's Transcripts : 1665-1836 LIC
IGI: Christenings: 1665-1697 & 1701-1836, Marriages: 1665-1836. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)
REGISTER COPIES: St.John the Baptist Part 1. Christenings: 1653-1841, Part 2. Marriages: 1653-1837, Burials: 1653-1835 BMSGH(Pbn) BIR , SoG
NONCONFORMIST: Quaker: see Source Material
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St.John the Baptist BMSGH.m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR
PROBATE RECORDS: LIC
CENSUS
RETURNS: All
WAR
1841 51 61
81
BIR
1881
BCP ,
BMSGH(PS)
INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837 Marriage 1653-1837 Poor Law c1690-1860
MANORIAL RECORDS: Court Rolls, rentals etc. 1587-1925.
Customs of
the Manor 19th century.
Admissions and Surrenders 1763-1859
(mainly Broadhurst and Lant families).
Index of names, Court Rolls
1586-1732. Ts D. Bethel.
OTHER SOURCES: Docker family 1711-1843 .
Humphriss, 1816-1888.
Lant family, deeds 1707-1841.
Account Book of John Lant, flax
grower and carpenter 1786-1793.
Festival of Berkswell 1972, list
of events staged for the festival with four pages headed A
Miscellany of Information with attractive sketches.
A Berkswell
Glebe Terrier. War.Hist. Vol.2 No.2.
Berkswell Miscellany
Vols.I-IV, The Offshoot Group of Berkswell Local History Research
Group.
Church of St.John the Baptist Guide Book BMSGH(LL)
Berkswell Church Funeral Hatchments, D.E.Gibbs, 1983 BMSGH(LL)
Through a Looking Glass-Some Reflections on the Parish 1989
BMSGH(LL)