Records
A list of the different records available on the website
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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Warwickshire Parish Apprentice enrolments between 1662 and 1834
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.
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. The tickets were in very poor condition in a number of plastic bags and were dirty and difficult to handle and read.
Booklet to view or download which contains some information on MI's and cemetery maps.
Transcriptions of the Coventry Schools Admission Board record books. 15 schools, 30,000 pupils from late 1880s onwards
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.
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.
Information about Mary Eaves and the role of a midwife in Victorian Coventry. Also local information of the time, including the gentry. Included are the details of the 5,035 deliveries attended by Mary Eaves, a midwife who lived in Spon End, Coventry. Mother’s name and address, the date of the delivery and in many cases the name of the person who paid for the ticket to ensure that Mary Eaves was in attendance
This is a transcription of the Coventry Apprentice Enrolments from 1781 to 1975.
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
Four of the censuses (1841, 1851, 1861 and 1871) were fully transcribed .The other two (1891 & 1901) were transcribed as name indexes.
The database consists of baptismal records, marriages and Burials between 1564 and 1837.