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Coventry Family History Society has made lots of different records for family historians available online on this website or available to buy. This is a comprehensive list of all those records.
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This census was taken on June 1st 1523 and recorded in the Coventry Leet book as the Dearth (a census).
- Member only
- Data Table
- Coventry
- 1500s
This directory covers the villages of Ashow, Baginton, Bubbenhall, Cubbington, Harbury, Milverton, Leek Wootton, Lillington, Offchurch, Radford Semele, Ufton
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- Warwickshire
- 1800s
Curtis and Beamish's Directory of Coventry 1874-5
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- Coventry
- 1800s
The register includes the names and addresses of all adults and how they qualified for voting.
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- Coventry
- 1900s
This is a transcription of the Coventry Apprentice Enrolments from 1781 to 1975.
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- Coventry
- 1700s, 1800s, 1900s
Baptisms in St Paul's, Foleshill, Warwickshire, compiled by members of Warwickshire FHS
- Public
- Data Table
- Coventry, Foleshill, St Pauls
- 1800s, 1900s
This database contains some extracts from the register of boats working the Coventry canal 1879-1936
- Public
- Data Table
- Coventry
- 1800s, 1900s
This database holds a transcription of the 27,135 records in the burial and scatterings registers from the opening of the gardens in 1943 to 30th December 1994.
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- Canley Gardens, Coventry
- 1900s
A record of Canal people found on the census 1841 to 1901
- Public
- Data Table
- Coventry
- 1800s, 1900s
The Convicts Register of 1879 and 1890 to 1897 from Coventry Prison.
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- Data Table
- Coventry
- 1800s
This is a list of starters and leavers virtually from the start of the Courtaulds operation in Coventry in the early 1900’s until about 1932.
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- Coventry
- 1900s
Transcribed from a hand written file which contains 3897 records. Contains entries from the earliest recorded starter in 1900 to the last leaver in 1946.
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- Data Table
- Coventry
- 1900s
Four of the censuses (1841, 1851, 1861 and 1871) were fully transcribed .The other two (1891 & 1901) were transcribed as name indexes.
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- Coventry
- 1800s, 1900s
Information Booklet issued to Residents of Coventry 1968-9
- Public
- Coventry
- 1900s
This data was transcribed by Coventry Family History Society members from a quantity of pawnbroker’s tickets discovered in an attic in Far Gosford Street, Coventry.
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- Data Table
- Coventry
- 1900s
Transcriptions of the Coventry Schools Admission Board record books. 15 schools, 30,000 pupils from late 1880s onwards
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- Data Table
- Coventry
- 1800s, 1900s
Coventry Union Year Book 1920-21
Rules, Regulations, Names and Roles of people associated with the Coventry Union for the period 1920-21
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- Coventry
- 1900s
This contains the records of births (1854-1930) and deaths (1845-1943) in the workhouse.
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- Coventry
- 1800s, 1900s
Graffiti in the Old Grammar School
Photographs and transcripts of the schoolboys' graffiti in the OGS.
- Public
- Coventry
- 1600s, 1700s, 1800s
A book about Hawkesbury School including the transcription of the entries into the Log Book 1885 to 1908
- Member only
- Warwickshire
- 1800s, 1900s
The parish registers of Holy Trinity Church, from 1561 to 1837, have been transcribed by Alma Merritt and have been published by Midland Ancestors (BMSGH). These burials are the few recorded post 1837.
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- Data Table
- Coventry, Holy Trinity
- 1800s
Memorial Inscriptions which relate to the burials recorded at Holy Trinity during this period.
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- Data Table
- Coventry, Holy Trinity
- 1800s
Trades Directory of Kenilworth 1874
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- Data Table
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
- 1800s
Scanned copy of Kelly's 1896 Directory. For convenience, it is divided into 5 searchable sections.
- Public
- Warwickshire
- 1800s
Transcription of Lascelles 1850 Directory of Coventry.
- Public
- Data Table
- Coventry
- 1800s
64 wills from the Warwickshire village of Lighthorne.
- Public
- Warwickshire
- 1500s, 1600s, 1700s
This contains the burials recorded in the Coventry London Road Cemetery Burial registers from the opening in 1847 to 1972, together with Memorial Inscriptions and cemetery maps.
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- Coventry, London Road
- 1800s, 1900s
This database contains the records of burials in London Road Cemetery between 1972 and 1994.
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- Coventry, London Road
- 1900s
Booklet to view or download which contains some information on MI's and cemetery maps.
- Public
- Coventry, London Road
- 1800s, 1900s
A scanned, searchable copy of this directory for members' use.
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- Warwickshire
- 1900s
A scanned, searchable copy of this directory for members' use.
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- Warwickshire
- 1900s
Marriages in St Paul's, Foleshill, Warwickshire, compiled by members of Warwickshire FHS
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- Data Table
- Coventry, Foleshill, St Pauls
- 1800s, 1900s
Information about Mary Eaves and the role of a midwife in Victorian Coventry.
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- Coventry
- 1800s
Burials at Salem Baptist Church, Foleshill, Warwickshire, compiled by members of Warwickshire FHS
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- Coventry, Foleshill
- 1800s, 1900s
Register of Members at Salem Baptist Church, Foleshill, compiled by members of Warwickshire FHS
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- Data Table
- Coventry, Foleshill
- 1800s, 1900s
List of Marriages in Shilton, Warwickshire compiled by members of Warwickshire FHS
- Public
- Data Table
- Warwickshire
- 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s
This book is based on research carried out by John Ashby for his book “Spon Street and
Spon End. A history of the people and buildings. ”
The booklet contains the 1891 census transcript for the area, building utilisation tables, maps and background notes.
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- Coventry
- 1800s
This book is based on research carried out by John Ashby for his book "Spon Street and
Spon End. A history of the people and buildings. "
The booklet contains the 1891 census transcript for the area, building utilisation tables, maps and background notes.
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- Coventry
- 1800s
The database consists of baptismal records, marriages and Burials between 1564 and 1837.
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- Coventry, St Laurence
- 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s
This is a transcription of the information in the burial registers from the opening of the cemetery in 1892 (the first burial we have recorded on the database is 17th May 1893) to 30th December 1994, and all the graves in the graveyard.
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- Coventry, St Pauls
- 1800s, 1900s
St Pauls Monumental Inscriptions
The older MIs collected by Gordon Cowley, but unverified by us.
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- Coventry, Foleshill, St Pauls
- 1900s
This database holds a transcription of the records in the burial registers. The burials mainly consist of people living within the Walsgrave, Wyken, Stoke & Bell Green areas
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- Coventry, Walsgrave
- 1800s, 1900s
Warwickshire Parish Apprentice enrolments between 1662 and 1834
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- Data Table
- Warwickshire
- 1600s, 1700s, 1800s
The returns for Warwickshire Villages
1842 - 1845
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- Data Table
- Warwickshire
- 1800s
Records of 33 Warwickshire Schools from early 1800s with kind permission of Warwickshire FHS
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- Warwickshire
- 1800s, 1900s
Windmill Road cemetery opened in 1909. The burials in the cemetery mainly consist of people living within the Longford, Foleshill, Holbrooks, Bell Green, Wood End and Aldermans Green area.
The latest burial recorded is 30th December 1994.
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- Coventry, Windmill Road
- 1900s