CURDWORTH

The village lies three miles north west of Coleshill. The church, which dates from Norman times, was a popular one for marriages in the eighteenth century. Minworth was a township within the parish.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Hemlingford. UNION: Aston

ADJOINING PARISHES: Sutton Coldfield, Wishaw, Middleton, Lea Marston, Nether Whitacre, Shustoke, Coleshill, Water Orton, Erdington (now Birmingham).

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1653-1844 Marriages: 1653-1956 Burials: 1653-1918 (Index, see Village History Group below.)

Bishop's Transcripts : 1673-1840 (gaps) LIC 1841-1850 WAR

IGI: Christenings: 1653-1844. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1653-1844, Marriages: 1653-1836, B to 1918 WAR
Marriages: 1875-1936 SoG

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

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: 1841 1861
1881 1891 WAR
1841-1881 &
1851 1871
1881 Minworth BIR 1841-1891 & Minworth 1841,1851,1861,1881,1891 SUT
1851 vXII (RR) , SoG
1851 (Minworth) vXII (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1721-1837

MANORIAL RECORDS: Plan of Manor of Dunton in the parish of Curdworth 1846.
History of the Manor of Berwood (in Curdworth), Rev.L.Mitchell 1926.

OTHER SOURCES: Survey of estates of Rt.Hon.Lord Bradford 1802.
Estate Map 1843.
Register Book of Curdworth 1653-1722, introduction etc., Launcelot Mitchell 1930.
A Pilgrim's Handbook to the Parish Church of St.Peter ad Vincula, Curdworth-in-Arden, L.Mitchell 1928.
Copy of pedigree of Stapleton family of Devon.
In a world that has gone, recollections of village life in Minworth in the nineteenth century, Mrs S.Silvester 1968.
Curdworth village as I remember it 70 years or more ago, E.Smith.
Curdworth and Minworth Parish News Vol.1 No.3.
Curdworth, 800 years, St.Nicholas Church, Curdworth, Souvenir programme containing a brief history of church and parish 1965.
Population trends in Curdworth 1653-1950 (Curdworth and Minworth Parish News Vol.1 No.9 Sept.1963.)
Village History Group, notes, maps, press cuttings and parish register index 1970s.
Tithe plan of Dunton 1846 BIR


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]