BICKENHILL

This parish adjoins the road from Birmingham to Coventry and is about four miles north east of Solihull. Today it is overshadowed by the National Exhibition Centre and Birmingham Airport. It is sometimes known as Church Bickenhill, and the first church was built here in 1140. Lyndon, Marston Green and Marston Couly are hamlets.

DIOCESE: Lichfield HUNDRED: Hemlingford UNION: Meriden

ADJOINING PARISHES: Coleshill, Little Packington, Great Packington, Hampton-In-Arden, Elmdon, Sheldon.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1558-1859 Marriages: 1559-1976 Burials: 1582-1890 Banns 1758-1812 1886-1923 Marston Green Christenings: 1911-1985 Marriages: 1939-1982.

Bishop's Transcripts : 1671-1844 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1558-1859, Marriages: 1558-1875. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1558-1859, Marriages: 1558-1812, 1818-96, Banns 1886-1923

NONCONFORMIST:Roman Catholic: see Source Material and C,M&R Vol.2

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St.Peter BMSGH.m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: (inc.Marston Green) All WAR
1841 51 61 81 BIR
1851 vX (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837 Marriage 1754-1847

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1711-1767 (Marston Couly) BIR 1517-1744 (Lyndon) BIR

DEEDS: Deeds 13thc-1570.

OTHER SOURCES: Discovering Bickenhill V.H.T. Skipp and K.P. Hastings, published by the Department of Extra-mural studies, University of Birmingham.
Transcripts, notes and analyses of records relating mainly to Hampton- in-Arden, Rowington, Solihull, Yardley, Bickenhill and Sheldon compiled 1970-1971.

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