DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Hemlingford. UNION: Meriden
ADJOINING PARISHES: Nether Whitacre, Over Whitacre, Arley, Fillongley, Maxstoke, Coleshill, Curdworth.
Parish Registers: Christenings: 1538-1982 Marriages: 1538-1989 Burials: 1538-1919 (Shustoke Bentley 1837-1967) Banns 1824-1950 Bishop's Transcripts : 1674-1843 LIC Begin c1833 WOR
IGI: Christenings: 1538-1875. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)
REGISTER COPIES: Burials: 1898-1919 Banns 1893-1950, MB 1538-20th century (Indexed), CMB 1538-1812, Marriages: 1813-1825 (by licence only) and Bentley only 1837-1937. CM Burials: 1813-1843 Marriages: 1538-1812 BOYD MISC . SoG CMB 1538-1722 BIR
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St.Cuthbert BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR
PROBATE RECORDS: LIC
CENSUS RETURNS: All
WAR
1861 71 81
BIR
1851 vII
(RR) ,
SoG
1881
BCP ,
BMSGH(PS)
INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1538-1837
Poor Law c1690-1860
MANORIAL RECORDS: 1495 STR Some records with Middleton manuscripts University of Nottingham Library (List at WAR ). Extracts from Court Roll 1447. Bentley Manor, Estreat Roll 1723; History of the Manor of Blythe by Sir William Dugdale, 1647. WAR
OTHER SOURCES: Plan of Holt Hall estate (Bentley) 1686.
Plans of
estate of Francis Stratford Esq., 1740, 1741 (Bentley).
Survey and
plans of farms belonging to Lord Leigh 1767.
Deeds and papers of
Croxall and Tongue family of Aldridge, Staffs, 13th-19thc.
Diary,
Life and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, W.Hamper, 1827.