WITHBROOK with MONKS KIRBY

The village is about eight miles north east of Coventry. The parish is usually linked with Monks Kirby though it had its own registers. Modern buildings obscure what remains of the old village. Hopsford is within the parish.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Foleshill

ADJOINING PARISHES: Wolvey, Monks Kirby, Comberfields, Ansty (Anstey), Shilton.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1653-1939 Marriages: 1653-1836 Burials: 1653-1812 Banns 1830-1923

Bishop's Transcripts : 1800-1836 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1809-1836 & 1845-1885, Marriages: 1809-1836. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1653-1879 Marriages: 1653-1836 Burials: 1653-1782, 1809-1832 Banns 1754-1813, 1830-1878 SoG

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: All Saints, Copston Magna St. John BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 81 BIR
1851 vI (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1836
Marriage 1754-1837

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1525-1538 (Smite and Withybrook) STR
Plan of Lordship belonging to Earl Spencer 1748 and 1781.

OTHER SOURCES: T.Haslewood of Dole House, vouchers and papers 1860-1866.
A Field Study of Withybrook, a Warwickshire parish Transactions of The Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeological Society 1976-1977 Vol.88 pp105-112.


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]