Towns and Villages Pages Added We have started a new series of pages called Towns & Villages of SWFHS which includes a brief history, links to relevant external information, a photograph gallery and links to SWFHS indices etc. We really do welcome any information and pictures you may wish to share with us on these pages. Below is a clickable list of new additions and the number of pages now stands at 11. Can you help us with content for these pages?, if yes please Contact the Website Manager

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St. Thomas, Coventry… Doubting Thomas?

After some hours of research into the different and confusing records held in the name of St. Thomas Church in the old Saxon village of Keresley, now part of Coventry our transcriber wrote the following: Two ancient churches stand almost side by side in the centre of the City of Coventry: Holy Trinity and St. Michael and All Angels (now Coventry Cathedral).

In Medieval times these churches stood within the City Walls but, as the population increased, the land outside of the Walls began to be occupied, the land being still nominally attached to one of these two churches. A need was recognised for more places of religious worship, and accordingly, further churches were built, either attached to Holy Trinity or to Saint Michael. There were exceptions to the land affiliation and one, in particular, would cause us, as transcribers, a considerable amount of confusion… to say the least!

Essentially, the Northern part of this land outside the Walls was allotted to Holy Trinity and the Southern part, to St. Michael. [VCH, 1969, p.41].

In the Northern part, an area was held by St. Michael, as a 'detached' part of St. Michael, within the Holy Trinity allotment. This area of the City is known as Keresley, and adjacent to it is the district of Coundon. Upon this piece of land [VCH, 1969, p.358], the church of St. Thomas was built in 1847, and a Chapelry in 1848;

"The decision, taken in early 1842, to build a church resulted eventually in the consecration of St. Thomas's Church in 1847 and the creation of the chapelry of Keresley with Coundon in the following year".

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We have added a new section to the website dealing with Non-Conformist (non C of E) records.

The records are contained in three tables, Births & Baptisms; Deaths & Burials and Marriages.

If you have failed to find a Warwickshire relative in Church of England records then perhaps you might find them in these 38,000 records from various types of church.
http://www.swfhs.org.uk/…/ma…/nonconform-baptism-main-index/
http://www.swfhs.org.uk/…/…/nonconform-burials-main-index-2/
http://www.swfhs.org.uk/…/ma…/nonconform-baptism-main-index/

In addition, we added some 23,500 new records to the more 800,000 records in our C of E databases.

Don't forget we are happy to help you with any of these records and can provide an extract from the relevant register at no charge with no strings and no subsequent spam.

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We are very pleased to announce that SWFHS is a member of the Family History Federation and hope that it gives our readers an indication of how serious we are in bringing family history and related information to those whose research includes the South Warwickshire area.

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