PARISH REGISTERS: Christenings: 1654-1970 Marriages: 1654-1983 Births: 1654-1992 Banns 1780-1825, 1847-1902

BISHOP'S TRANSCRIPTS: 1674-1846

IGI: Christenings: 1759-1875, Marriages: 1754-1876, Wesleyan Chapel Christenings: 1818-1837

CHURCH: All Saints

Chilvers Coton is less than a mile from the center of Nuneaton and is now absorbed into the town. The novelist, George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans) was baptised in the church and many of the places in her novels are based on Chilvers Coton (which she calls Shepperton in Scenes from Clerical Life) and on Nuneaton. Nearby is Arbury Hall, which, in Mr.Gilfil's Love Story is called Cheverel Hall, the home of the Newdigate family. The vast Newdigate archives provide rich material for the family historian. The church was destroyed by bombs in May 1941 and later was rebuilt with the help of German prisoners of war

The Parish Registers can be found at Nuneaton Library or at Warwick County Record Office.

Copies of the following registers can also be found at The Society of Genealogists in London
Microfiche copies of Christenings 1654-1878 Marriages 1654-1876 and Burials 1654-1878

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