CORLEY

The village lies about five miles north west of Coventry. The M6 motorway runs through the parish, and nearby is Corley Hall, built in the sixteenth century but much altered. Corley Moor is partly in the parish of Allesley.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Hemlingford. UNION: Meriden

ADJOINING PARISHES: Fillongley, Astley, Exhall (Near Coventry), Coventry, Allesley.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1540-1942 Marriages: 1540-1973 Burials: 1540-1932 Banns 1804-1820

Bishop's Transcripts : 1660-1844 LIC Begin c1858 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1540-1586 & 1685-1877, Marriages: 1541-1837. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: CMB 1573-1589 STR MB 1662-1674 WAR
CMB 1653-1686 Christenings: 1876-1942 Marriages: 1838-1948 Burials: 1888-1932 SoG

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

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 81 BIR 1861 COV .
1851 vX (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837 Marriage 1754-1837 Poor Law c.1690-1860

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1748 also from 1896.

OTHER SOURCES: Oughton family 16th and 17th century wills.
Daybooks and accounts, G and A. Tuft, blacksmith.
The history of Corley and its parish church, I.Carr-Gregg, 1952.
The Gregory of Stivichal collection STR contains Overseers' accounts 1810-1819, Wills, Mary Tallis 1637, Henry Davy 1665, Richard Jackson 1723, Henry Barnett 1781, William Hawkesford (extracts) 1859.
W.I. Scrapbook 1965.


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]