Combe Fields Genealogical Records
Combe Fields Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Original images of baptism registers, searchable by a name index, covering almost all Warwickshire parishes.
Digital images of baptism registers that can be searched by name. They record baptisms, which typically occur shortly after birth, and list the baptised's name, date of birth and/or baptism and parents' names. They may also list where the parents lived, their occupations and occasionally other details.
A collection of records documenting the birth and maintenance of illegitimate children.
An index to over 240,000 baptism records from Warwickshire churches. Entries include name, gender, date of birth and/or baptism, church and parents' names.
Combe Fields Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Original images of marriage registers, searchable by a name index, covering almost all Warwickshire parishes.
Digital images of marriage registers that can be searched by name. They contain written records of marriages and typically record the name of the bride and groom and date of marriage. They may also record occupations, residences, fathers' names, witnesses and other information about the marriage.
Abstracts of marriage licences granted by the Vicar-General in London. These licences could be used to marry in any church in the Province of Canterbury.
An index to around 220,000 marriage records kept by Warwickshire churches. Entries list the name of the bride and groom, their: ages and marital statuses; and date and place of marriage.
Combe Fields Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Original images of burial registers, searchable by a name index, covering almost all Warwickshire parishes.
Digital images of burial registers that can be searched by name. They contain records of burials, which typically occur a few days after death, and record the name of the deceased and date of death and/or burial. They may also list where the deceased lived, their age, names of relations, occupation and occasionally other details.
An index to over 1 million baptisms, marriages and burials recorded by Anglican churches in Warwickshire.
An index to over 160,000 burial records from Warwickshire churches. Entries include name, age, residence, date of burial, church and in some case's father's name.
Combe Fields Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
A transcription of records that record households, occupations, age, place of birth and relations.
A transcription of records that record households, occupations, age, place of birth and relations.
A transcription of records that record households, occupations and rough ages.
Newspapers Covering Combe Fields
Original images of a local newspaper, searchable via a full text index. Includes news from the Coventry area, business notices, obituaries, family announcements and more.
A searchable newspaper providing a rich variety of information about the people and places of the Tamworth district. Includes obituaries and family announcements.
A database allowing full text searches of a newspaper covering regional news, family announcements, obituaries, court proceedings, business notices and more in the Coventry area.
This fully searchable newspaper will provide a rich variety of information about the people and places of the Coventry district. Includes family announcements.
A database allowing full text searches of a newspaper covering local news, family announcements, obituaries, court proceedings, business notices and more in the Leamington Spa area.
Combe Fields Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
An index to wills, administrations and inventories proved by the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. Copies of wills can be ordered or viewed at the record office in Lichfield.
An index to probates and administrations granted by the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Worcester. Contains the deceased's name, occupation, residence and whether the grant was for probate or administration. Also lists which records contain an inventory.
An index to estate administrations performed by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The index covers the southern two thirds of England & Wales, but may also contain entries for northerners.
A searchable database providing brief details of surviving probates and administrations granted by the Diocese of Lichfield, which covered parts of Derbyshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. Contains a reference to order the original documents.
Combe Fields Immigration & Travel Records
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
A full index of passenger lists for vessels arriving in the UK linked to original images. Does not include lists from vessels sailing from European ports. Early entries can be brief, but later entries may include dates of births, occupations, home addresses and more. Useful for documenting immigration.
An index to and images of documents recording over 1.65 million passengers who arrived in Victoria, Australia, including passengers whose voyage was paid for by others.
Details on over 600,000 non-British citizens arriving in England. Often includes age and professions. Useful for discerning the origin of immigrants.
Details on thousands of 17th century British immigrants to the U.S., detailing their origins and nature of their immigration.
Combe Fields Military Records
A collection of documents primarily composed of certificates verifying a man’s service, account statements related to reimbursements to his family for his service, notices of commissions that were to be printed in a gazette, and documents outlining qualifications to serve as a Deputy Lieutenant.
A list of names found on World War One monuments in Warwickshire, with some service details.
A list of names found on World War Two monuments in Warwickshire, with some service details.
A searchable list of over 100,000 British Army POWs. Records contains details on the captured, their military career and where they were held prisoner.
Details on around 165,000 men serving in the British Army, Navy and Air Force who were held as prisoners during WWII.
Combe Fields Court & Legal Records
Thousands of documents pertaining largely to occupations from one of Warwickshire lower courts. Contains considerable amounts of personal information.
A calendar of records kept by parish churches recording the administration of the poor. These records, can include genealogical details, such as age and place of birth; biographical details and more. The index contains over 80,000 names.
Digital images of records detailing the maintenance of the poor by the Church of England. Also includes rate books, which are useful for genealogists and the study of land ownership.
Digital images of parish records, besides baptism, marriage & burial registers. These records can include genealogical and biographical information that does not occur in registers. The collection includes: account books, vestry books, marriage licences, letters, rate books, orders of removal, churchwarden’s books, rents, constable records, papist estates, parish addresses, deeds, logs, minutes & orders.
An index to orders against men alleged to have fathered illegitimate children.
Combe Fields Taxation Records
An index linked to original images of over 250,000 land tax assessments. These records can be a useful aid for establishing ancestry among land owning families and their tenants; and are also useful for locating relevant estate records.
A transcription of records naming those who had taxes levied against them for the privilege of owning a hearth.
Certificates for individuals who paid a tax for the privilege of using hair powder.
Over 1,000 documents listing those taxed for owning or occupying houses with hearths.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Combe Fields Land & Property Records
An index linked to original images of over 250,000 land tax assessments. These records can be a useful aid for establishing ancestry among land owning families and their tenants; and are also useful for locating relevant estate records.
Digital images of records detailing the maintenance of the poor by the Church of England. Also includes rate books, which are useful for genealogists and the study of land ownership.
Digital images of parish records, besides baptism, marriage & burial registers. These records can include genealogical and biographical information that does not occur in registers. The collection includes: account books, vestry books, marriage licences, letters, rate books, orders of removal, churchwarden’s books, rents, constable records, papist estates, parish addresses, deeds, logs, minutes & orders.
An alphabetical list of people who owned, rather than leased, land in the county.
Lists of freeholders entitled to vote.
Combe Fields Directories & Gazetteers
An exhaustive gazetteer, containing details of settlement's history, governance, churches, postal services, public institutions and more. Also contains lists of residents with their occupation and address.
A directory of residents and businesses; with a description of each settlement, containing details on its history, public institutions, churches, postal services, governance and more.
A directory of residents and businesses; with a description of each settlement, containing details on its history, public institutions, churches, postal services, governance and more.
A directory of residents and businesses; with a description of each settlement, containing details on its history, public institutions, churches, postal services, governance and more.
A directory of residents and businesses; with a description of each settlement, containing details on its history, public institutions, churches, postal services, governance and more.
Combe Fields Cemeteries
An index to over 200,000 gravestones and memorials in the county of Warwickshire.
Photographs and descriptions of Warwickshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
An index to surnames occurring on monuments, such as gravestones, that have been transcribed by the Birmingham and Midlands Society.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Combe Fields Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Combe Fields Histories & Books
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
This database contains digitized copies of historical publications from Warwickshire and Birmingham. Their pages can include biographical details, newsworthy events, member lists, obituaries, court dockets, and other historical tidbits.
Photographs and images of churches in Warwickshire.
High quality photographs of Warwickshire church interiors and exteriors.
An index of windmills in the county, with brief notes and some photographs.
Combe Fields School & Education Records
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A transcript of a vast scholarly work briefly chronicling the heritage, education and careers of over 150,000 Cambridge University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A searchable database containing over 90,000 note-form biographies for students of Cambridge University.
Combe Fields Occupation & Business Records
Almost 200 records documenting members of freemasonic lodges.
Nearly 200 documents relating to people who operated boats on canals running through Warwickshire.
Over 1,500 documents relating to bounties offered to farmers by the government to grow flax.
Over 2,000 documents relating to those employed as gamekeepers in Warwickshire.
Profiles of the county's public houses, including details of their owners and operators.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Combe Fields
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Genealogies of Warwickshire families who had the right to bear arms. Illustrations of arms and some biographical details are given.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
Combe Fields Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Genealogies of Warwickshire families who had the right to bear arms. Illustrations of arms and some biographical details are given.
Photographs and descriptions of Warwickshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Combe Fields Church Records
The primary source of documentation for baptisms, marriages and burials before 1837, though extremely useful to the present. Their records can assist tracing a family as far back as 1821.
Original images of parish registers, searchable by a name index, covering almost all Warwickshire parishes.
Digital images of records detailing the maintenance of the poor by the Church of England. Also includes rate books, which are useful for genealogists and the study of land ownership.
Digital images of parish records, besides baptism, marriage & burial registers. These records can include genealogical and biographical information that does not occur in registers. The collection includes: account books, vestry books, marriage licences, letters, rate books, orders of removal, churchwarden’s books, rents, constable records, papist estates, parish addresses, deeds, logs, minutes & orders.
A transcription of registers that record the affairs of the diocese, such as governance, ordination, judicial matters, visitations, confirmations etc.
Biographical Directories Covering Combe Fields
This database contains digitized copies of historical publications from Warwickshire and Birmingham. Their pages can include biographical details, newsworthy events, member lists, obituaries, court dockets, and other historical tidbits.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
Combe Fields Maps
A map delineating Church of England parishes in Warwickshire.
Digital images of maps covering the county.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Maps showing settlements, features and some buildings in mainland Britain.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Combe Fields Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Civil & Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Historical Description
COMBE FIELDS is an extensive liberty and parish, about two miles north-west from Brinklow station on the Trent Valley section of the London and North Western railway, and 5 miles east from Coventry, the property of the Earl of Craven, and occupied by a few farmers; it is in the North-Eastern division of the county, Kirby division of the hundred of Knightlow, petty sessional division of Coventry, and union and county court district of Rugby.
Combe Abbey, 2 miles north from Brandon station on the London and North Western railway, the seat of the Earl of Craven, is erected on the foundation of the first monastery of the Cistercian order settled in this county and founded by Richard de Camvill in the reign of King; Stephen, by a grant of his lordship of Smite to the Abbot; of Waverley in Surrey, by whose monks, therefore, this religious house was established A.D. 1150: after this it was granted, 1 Edward VI. A.D. 1547, to John, Earl of Warwick, and in 1616 it came into the possession of Sir W. Craven, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1611, from whom it has descended to its present noble owner." by the gifts of a long line of benefactors this became in time as famous and wealthy society, and existed, as Dugdale testifies, “in great glory,” till its surrender by Abbot Kynner, 21 Jan. 30 Henry VIII. after an existence of four centuries: the name of “Combe” refers to its situation in a valley, now part of an extensive and beautiful park, well stocked with herds of deer. John, Lord Harington, who inherited the estate by marriage in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, built a large mansion out of the ruins of the monastery, and, retaining three sides of the Perpendicular cloisters, erected over these a structure of timber, the outer ends of the wings and gables being of stone: considerable additions were made about the end of the 17th century, including all the more stately apartments and most of the west front a complete restoration, or more correctly, a rebuilding of the abbey was begun by the late Earl of Craven in 1861 and completed in 1866, from the designs of Mr. W. Eden Westfield, architect, by whose direction the east wing, with the exception of the basement frontage of Norman arches belonging to the original monastery, was removed; the Norman style has, with some modifications, been maintained at the base, changing in the upper storeys to that of the 13th century: the new work includes a complete set of servants’ offices, the chief feature of which is an open-roofed kitchen, on a side wall of which is a fresco painting: in the dining room are two portraits by Velasquez, two examples of Canaletto, portraits of the Duchess of Cleveland by Lely, and of Charles II. at the age of eighteen, by Dobson: the drawing room contains Vandyck’s fine portrait of the fair-haired Duke of Richmond, and the walls are adorned with elaborately carved trophies: the state bed room is hung with tapestry, and in the Bohemian room are portraits of the King and Queen of Bohemia and their 12 children; the cloister contains suits of armour: the west front of the abbey commands a view of the lake, a magnificent piece of water of 90 acres, teeming with many varieties of fish; an arm of this water has been brought up to the south front of the abbey, and washes its walls in form of a moat: the gardens, projected by William 2nd Earl Craven, are very extensive, occupying an area of 40 acres, and were laid out by his lordship’s head gardener and sub-agent, Mr. W. Miller, who in addition formed some pleasant green drives and added largely to the extent of the park: the hothouses are well known for their production of superior grapes, and the banana and pineapple are grown also. In the “Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire” is the following concise and correct account of this property:-“The Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I. and afterwards Queen of Bohemia, occasionally resided here with Sir John Harington kt. 1st Baron Harington, of Exton, who was entrusted with the superintendence of her education. His son the 2nd Baron Harington dying without issue, the estate was shortly after sold to Sir William Craven kt. Lord Mayor of London in 1611, and ancestor of the Earl of Craven, the present possessor. William, eldest son of Sir William Craven, having at a very early age signalised himself in Germany and the Netherlands, under the Prince o£Orange, was knighted 4 Mar. 1626, and 8 days later, ennobled by the title of Baron Craven; and at the Restoration advanced to the dignity of Viscount Uffington and Earl of Craven; urged by an enthusiastic desire for glory, and perhaps also, as it is supposed, by a chivalric attachment to the beautiful, high-minded and accomplished Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, he was one of the most ardent of that gallant band of Englishmen who strove to reinstate her unfortunate consort, Frederic, in his possessions; through all the distresses and calamities with which Elizabeth had to contend after the death of Frederic, Lord Craven continued to devote himself and his fortunes to her service, and it was at length, owing principally to his munificence in appropriating his mansion of Drury House to her use, that she was enabled, in 1661, to return to her native country, where she shortly after terminated her eventful life, bequeathing to her valued friend and benefactor her papers, books and pictures, which latter form an appropriate and interesting part of the excellent and valuable collection of paintings with which the several apartments of Combe Abbey are adorned; among them will be found numerous portraits, some particularly fine, of the Stuart family, by Vandyck and Honthorst, and several exquisite and attractive pictures by Rembrandt, Rubens, Jan Loten,Zoust, Mirevelt, Pieter Tyssens, Taddeo Zucchero, Velasquez, Palamedes, Van Somer, P. Lely, Henry Stone, Bursmon, D. Mytens, Sir J. Reynolds, G. da Ponte Bassano, Canaletto and Caravaggio.” The Earl of Craven is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is a clay loam; subsoil, red clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and beans. The area of the parish is 3,772 acres; rateable value, £8,994; the population in 1891 was 137.
The children of this place attend the schools at Brinklow & Binley.
Most Common Surnames in Combe Fields
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Knightlow Hundred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reynolds | 9 | 1:19 | 0.86% | 85 |
| 2 | Hughes | 8 | 1:21 | 0.36% | 30 |
| 2 | Clarke | 8 | 1:21 | 0.24% | 9 |
| 2 | Reeves | 8 | 1:21 | 1.06% | 136 |
| 5 | Birch | 7 | 1:24 | 0.94% | 140 |
| 5 | Minard | 7 | 1:24 | 100.00% | 8,230 |
| 7 | Hall | 6 | 1:28 | 0.23% | 17 |
| 7 | Miller | 6 | 1:28 | 0.76% | 123 |
| 7 | Mills | 6 | 1:28 | 0.38% | 45 |
| 7 | Bird | 6 | 1:28 | 0.44% | 55 |
| 11 | Smith | 5 | 1:34 | 0.03% | 1 |
| 11 | French | 5 | 1:34 | 0.99% | 205 |
| 11 | Garner | 5 | 1:34 | 1.50% | 347 |
| 11 | Lines | 5 | 1:34 | 0.96% | 199 |
| 11 | Hands | 5 | 1:34 | 0.45% | 74 |
| 16 | Green | 4 | 1:43 | 0.11% | 8 |
| 16 | Jackson | 4 | 1:43 | 0.17% | 25 |
| 16 | Nicholls | 4 | 1:43 | 0.38% | 79 |
| 16 | Goodman | 4 | 1:43 | 0.88% | 240 |
| 16 | Handley | 4 | 1:43 | 1.29% | 368 |
| 16 | Corby | 4 | 1:43 | 13.79% | 3,078 |
| 22 | Rowe | 3 | 1:57 | 0.73% | 272 |
| 22 | Tustin | 3 | 1:57 | 2.56% | 993 |
| 22 | Hewatt | 3 | 1:57 | 100.00% | 13,894 |
| 25 | Hill | 2 | 1:85 | 0.07% | 12 |
| 25 | Carter | 2 | 1:85 | 0.16% | 60 |
| 25 | Bolton | 2 | 1:85 | 0.69% | 395 |
| 25 | Sadler | 2 | 1:85 | 0.62% | 362 |
| 29 | Wilson | 1 | 1:170 | 0.04% | 27 |
| 29 | Johnson | 1 | 1:170 | 0.03% | 10 |
| 29 | Watson | 1 | 1:170 | 0.10% | 88 |
| 29 | King | 1 | 1:170 | 0.06% | 40 |
| 29 | Bailey | 1 | 1:170 | 0.07% | 50 |
| 29 | Carr | 1 | 1:170 | 0.44% | 533 |
| 29 | Noble | 1 | 1:170 | 1.49% | 1,587 |
| 29 | Warner | 1 | 1:170 | 0.14% | 149 |
| 29 | Greaves | 1 | 1:170 | 0.23% | 253 |
| 29 | Lovell | 1 | 1:170 | 0.71% | 851 |
| 29 | Nicholas | 1 | 1:170 | 1.08% | 1,185 |
| 29 | Thorp | 1 | 1:170 | 2.86% | 2,684 |
| 29 | Judd | 1 | 1:170 | 0.43% | 513 |
| 29 | Almond | 1 | 1:170 | 100.00% | 18,717 |
| 29 | Kenny | 1 | 1:170 | 1.03% | 1,144 |
| 29 | Burdett | 1 | 1:170 | 0.50% | 602 |
| 29 | Flack | 1 | 1:170 | 25.00% | 12,031 |
| 29 | Wilmot | 1 | 1:170 | 3.57% | 3,145 |
| 29 | Fidler | 1 | 1:170 | 16.67% | 9,237 |
| 29 | Gavin | 1 | 1:170 | 2.86% | 2,684 |
| 29 | Billings | 1 | 1:170 | 1.27% | 1,348 |
| 29 | Greasley | 1 | 1:170 | 3.03% | 2,801 |
| 29 | Tidmarsh | 1 | 1:170 | 0.85% | 993 |
| 29 | Fitter | 1 | 1:170 | 0.38% | 450 |
| 29 | Corn | 1 | 1:170 | 100.00% | 18,717 |
| 29 | Sheppherd | 1 | 1:170 | 50.00% | 15,906 |
| 29 | Sheperd | 1 | 1:170 | 11.11% | 6,771 |
| 29 | Murcott | 1 | 1:170 | 1.33% | 1,424 |
| 29 | Campin | 1 | 1:170 | 20.00% | 10,525 |
| 29 | Cusson | 1 | 1:170 | 100.00% | 18,717 |
| 29 | Clanson | 1 | 1:170 | 100.00% | 18,717 |
| 29 | Burbadge | 1 | 1:170 | 100.00% | 18,717 |