Warwickshire Team
Location: Warwickshire, England
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Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. Warwickshire is bordered by Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and West Midlands, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Oxfordshire.
The county is divided into five districts of North Warwickshire, Nuneaton & Bedworth, Rugby, Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon. The historic county boundaries also included Coventry and Solihull, as well as much of Birmingham.
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What We Do
As the Warwickshire Team, we handle the responsibility of improving the profiles of people from Warwickshire along with several other tasks, which include:
- Oversight of the county category page to ensure that our information is up to date and is consistent with the other England county pages.
- This includes the revision of our categories, adding correct categories and deleting incorrect or unnecessary categories as needed.
- Our oversight of the Warwickshire category page also includes monitoring the page to ensure that all profiles are placed into the most accurate sub-category possible and not into any of the parent categories.
- Continually updating the maintenance templates on Warwickshire profiles such as "Unsourced" and "Estimated Date".
- Focusing on the improvement of Warwickshire profiles including sourcing, connecting, merging, duplicates, correcting database errors, and writing biographies.
- Creating profiles for prominent or notable Warwickshire-based individuals and connecting them to our global trees.
- Researching and updating profiles on WikiTree which are relevant to prominent Warwickshire families.
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Our Team
- Team Leader: Amelia Utting
- Team Members:
- Bennet George
- Adriana Hazelton
- Rob Judd
- Frances Piercy-Reins
- Elizabeth Viney
- Jennifer Middlemiss
- Jemima Winder
- Karen Butler
- Martin Shakespeare
- Helen Rees
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Births and GRO registrations can be confusing for the West Midlands because of frequent border changes. Taking a look at the Slaidburn in Lancashire, it looks like its located close to the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire and was historically located in the latter.
It's definitely common to find births split between Warwickshire, Worcestershire and other West Midlands counties. If this is a census record, would you be able to send me a link to it? It's possible that Slaidburn is a mis-transcription and if we can figure out what it actually says we can go from there :)
- Amy Utting, Warwickshire Team Leader.
The census is 1851 - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/MVCD-P33
Sarah Fearn and daughter, Elizabeth.
edited by Melanie Paul
The registration district of King's Norton covered a wide swathe of places in Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire to the south-west of Birmingham (my ancestors from Harborne in Staffordshire are mostly registered there), but you would expect Sarah's daughter Elizabeth's birth in 1840, if at Barston, to have been registered in Solihull rather than King's Norton (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2NSP-NKY and GRO Reference: 1840 J Quarter in KINGS NORTON UNION Volume 18 Page 409). Elizabeth married James Hill in 1869 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGD2-VSX9). The censuses thereafter offer various birth locations: Birmingham in 1881 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27N-FZGP); Aston in 1891 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WLPQ-GT2); Aston again in 1901 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSZV-LCP); and King's Norton in 1911 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWZW-Y3M), so I think it's safest just to say that Elizabeth Fearn was born in an inner suburb of Birmingham.
edited by Chris Weston
Is there anyone familiar enough with placenames around the Bubbenhall, Barston, Bickenhill, Stoneleigh, Birmingham, etc areas, who could help -- or should I ask in g2g?