Local Resources

• Coventry and Warwickshire Church registers for baptisms, marriages, banns & burials.
• Registers for Nonconformist churches including West Orchard and Vicar Lane. Some of these give dates of births as well as the usual baptisms and burials c.1700 - 1837, for Coventry and Warwickshire (excluding Birmingham)
• Burial Registers for London Road Cemetery, Coventry 1847-1900.
• Monumental inscriptions for London Road Cemetery, Holy Trinity and some other local churches. I can also search for and take photographs of gravestones.
• Registers listing enrolments of apprentices from 1781 – 1975.
• Rolls and registers of men (and women from 1937) admitted to the Freemanship of Coventry, 1715 - 1986.
• Local newspapers dating from 1746 to the present day. I can obtain copy pages showing births deaths and marriages plus local events. Did a relative died in strange circumstances was there an inquest? If so there is a good chance it was in the local paper. Or are you looking for an unusual gift for a special Birthday, how about a copy of their birth Announcement or a copy of every page of the Newspaper from the day they were born. Or for a special anniversary a copy of their wedding announcement.
• Rolls of the Fallen - Soldiers who were born or lived in Coventry who died in WW1 and WW2
• The Coventry Graphic index of servicemen 1914 – 1918 this includes many pictures.
• Some registers of admissions to local schools, plus records for various charity schools.
• The Convicts Register 1879 1890-1897. This usually includes their photograph may include some details of their convictions plus aliases.
• Original records of the Court Leet, Quarter Sessions and Magistrate's courts for Coventry, 15th century to mid 20th century.
• Trade directory entries for Coventry, some directories covering Warwickshire published between 1822 and 1940. Plus some local telephone directories from 1948.
• Maps books old Photographs/Prints of the local area.
• Electoral Rolls for Coventry including 1834, 1857-59 and all years since 1877 (Not including First and Second World Wars when no lists were produced). Poll Books for most elections 1741 - 1868.
• Coventry Workhouse registers including admissions, discharges, births and deaths. These also give reason for admission and some other details.
• Publican in the family? I can often obtain photos of many Pubs' that no longer exist.

The story of an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during the Second World War. Presided over by an indomitable matriarch, the sisters live out a tangled and fraught life that takes them through the Blitz, war work and on into the hopeful post-war years, and a bizarre interlude for one of them in a commune. And through it all wanders the young son of one of the sisters, passed from sister to sister, the innocent witness to a life that edges over into the magical.

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