Stoke Warwickshire Family History Guide
Stoke is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1574
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1664
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STOKE, a parish, with a village, in Foleshill district, Warwick; 2 miles ENE of Coventry r. station. It has a post-office, of the name of Stoke-Green, under Coventry. Acres, 920. Real property, £9,643. Pop. in 1851, 1,031; in 1861, 1,555. Houses, 325. The manor belongs to the corporation of Coventry. There are many fine villas. Ribbon-weaving is carried on. The living is a vicarage, united with Walsgrave, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £333. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and has been repaired and enlarged. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Directors of Companies
The following people were listed in the Directory of Directors 1881 as directors of companies who were either living in Stoke or the company was based in Stoke or both.
Boughton – Mr Edmund Boughton, Stoke, near Coventry, is a director of the –
Birmingham Dudley and District Banking Company Limited
Birmingham Exchange Buildings Company Limited
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Foleshill
- Probate Court: Pre-1837 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1836 – Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Coventry
- Poor Law Union: Foleshill
- Hundred: Knightlow
- Province: Canterbury