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Wiltshire
Catalogue of Fiche, Film and CDs

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POOR  LAW

Rover Index
Index to documents referring to the Settlement Laws, such as Removal documents,
Settlement certificates, Settlement Examinations etc.

fiche Wil 419-422
British & Irish Vagrants passing through Wiltshire
[Vol 1] 1785 - 1789
[Vol 2] 1790 – 1796
[Vol 3] 1702 – 1705, 1708 – 1712, 1740 – 1742, 1774 – 1776
fiche Wil 572-575
Also See Workhouse Records below.

Bishopstone
Poor rate book  1836-1916
Valuation list 1877-1906
Film Wil 60
Box
Bastardy Papers  1717-1815
Letters 1824
Justices Warrants  1824
Militia papers  1778-1818, 1803
Film Wil 50
Bremhill
Removal Orders  1739-1831
Removal Examinations 1768-1797
Settlement Certificates 1708-1767
Bastardy Papers  1708-1767
Film Wil 50
Broughton Gifford
Churchwarden’s Account book  1708-1922
Vestry Minute book 1827-1829
Surveyor’s Account book 1762-1819
Overseer’s Poor Rate book  1814-1834
Overseer’s Account book  1742-1762, 1795-1816, 1825-1835
Film Wil 50
Calstone-Wellington
Churchwardens accounts 1715-1853
Film Wil 60
Chisledon
Surveyor’s Account book  1766-1839
Overseer’s assessment of the Poor Rates  1825-1834
Film Wil 50
Chisledon
Overseers Account Book  1780-1834
Miscellaneous parish records 1780-1834
Film Wil 49
Collingbourne Ducis
Overseers of the Poor Accounts 1770-1809
Miscellaneous parish records 1770-1809
Film Wil 49
Devizes St Mary
Removal orders  1692-1829
Bastardy papers 1617- 1823
Rate book  1762
Militia papers  1780- 1814
Census  1831
Film Wil 55
Wilton       
Free School book 1723-1758, 1822-1884
Film Wil 60

QUAKERS or SOCIETY of FRIENDS

Gloucestershire & Wiltshire Quarterly Meeting [RG-6 / 1613]
Marriages  1775-1794
Film Gen 47

QUARTER  SESSIONS  RECORDS

Wiltshire Quarter Sessions    AJCP film 935
1.    Bonds & contracts for transportation of felons  1787-1789
2.    Melksham Union Minute Books  1848-1858
3.    Wiltshire Emigration Society 1851
4.    John Palmer correspondence re Java etc. 1825-1829
5.    Thomas E. Bate letters from HMS Iron Duke  1871-1872
6.    Committee for Emigration of Females to Australian Colonies
7.    Diary of William C. Grove, Australia
Film Wil 47

Wiltshire Quarter Session Great Rolls
Extracts of the Seventeeth century 1603-1699
Includes Appendix giving wages in Wiltshire for 1655 & 1685
CD

VISITATIONS

The Heralds Visitations of: Wiltshire 1623
CD

WILLS

Salisbury Diocesan Registry Wills 1500-1800  [P-Z]
Covers Berkshire & Dorset as well as Wiltshire.
Film Wil 10

WILL  INDEXES
Wills before 1858 were proved in Ecclesiastical Courts.
The principal ones for Wiltshire  were the Archdeaconry of  Sarum,  the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire, the Archdeaconry of Winchester and the Diocese of Gloucester.
 
The Superior Court was the PCC. Prerogative Court of Canterbury [See England General].
Index to Probate Records by Occupation  [A -W]
Covers Berkshire & Dorset as well as Wiltshire.
Film Wil 8
Index to Archdeaconry of Wiltshire Wills [A -Z]
Covers parts of Berkshire as well as Wiltshire.
Film Wil 8
Index to Archdeaconry of Wiltshire Wills 1557-1799.
Index to Archdeaconry of Wiltshire Wills 1800-1858 [about 15,000 entries]
Covers parts of Berkshire as well as Wiltshire.
Film Wil 9
Archdeaconry of Sarum Index to Wills to 1858 [A -Z] [about 22,000 entries]
Covers Dorset & some of Berkshire as well as Wiltshire.
Film Wil 9
Consistory Court of Sarum Index to Wills to 1858  [A -Z] [about 15,000 entries]
Covers Berkshire & Dorset as well as Wiltshire.
Film Wil 9
Salisbury District Probate Registry Index to Wills 1858-1887
Film Wil 9
Index to Wills of the Peculiar Court of the Dean of Salisbury 1500-1858
[approx 14,000 entries]. Covers Berkshire as well as Wiltshire.
Film Wil 10
Index to Wills of the Peculiar Court of the Sub Dean of Sarum 1581-1858.
[approx 14,000 entries]. Covers Dorset as well as Wiltshire.
Film Wil 10

WORKHOUSE  RECORDS

Also see Poor Law above.

Alderbury & Salisbury Unions
Creed Registers c1900-1925
Alderbury Union
Includes the parishes of:Alderbury, Winterslow, West Grimstead, Whiteparish, Landford, Downton,
Standlynch, Nunton with Bodenham, Odstock, Homington, Coombe Bissett, Stratford St. Anthony,
Britford, West Harnham, Laverstock, Stratford under Castle, Fisherton Anger and parts of West Dean & St Martin in Salisbury.

Salisbury Union
Includes Salisbury St Edmund, Salisbury St Thomas & part of St Martin.
Film Wil 54
Chippenham Union
Creed Register  1881-1923
Chippenham Union
Includes the parishes of Corsham, Colerne, Ditteridge, Box, Slaughterford, Biddestone St. Nicholas,
Biddestone St. Peter, Castle Combe, Littleton Drew, Grittleton, Leigh Delamere, Yatton Keynell,
Nettleton, West Kington, North Wraxall, Christian Malford, Kington  St. Michael, Stanton St. Quintin,
Draycot Cerne, Sutton Benger & Tytherton Kellaways.

Film Wil 54
Chippenham Union
Births in the Workhouse 1866-1914
For parishes – see above.
Film Wil 54
Devizes Union
Register of Inmates [with index]1899-1932
Devizes Union
Includes the parishes of Bromham, Rowde, Poulshot, Potterne, Market Lavington, Bishops Lavington,
Little Cheverell, Great Cheverell, Erlestoke, Alton Barnes, Stanton St. Bernard, Beechingstoke,
Marden, Chirton, Patney, All Cannings & most of Bishops Cannings & Urchfont.

Film Wil 54
Devizes Union
Register of Births in the Workhouse 1848-1864
Register of Births & Deaths in the Workhouse 1866-1902
For parishes – see above.
Film Wil 54
Devizes Union
Register of Christenings in the Workhouse 1871-1932
For parishes – see above.
Film Wil 54
Devizes Union
Register of deaths in the Workhouse 1903-1914
For parishes – see above.
Film Wil 54
Highworth Union
Creed Register  1899-1911
Highworth & Swindon Union
Includes the parishes of Inglesham, Castle Eaton, Hannington, Stanton Fitzwarren, Blunsdon St. Andrew, Rodbourne Cheney, Stratton St. Margaret, Swindon, Bishopstone, Little Hinton, Wanborough, Liddington, Chisledon, Draycott Foliat & Wroughton.
Film Wil 54
Highworth & Swindon Union
Births in the Workhouse  1869-1874
For parishes – see above.
Film Wil 54
Malmesbury Union
Creed Register  1869-1874
Malmesbury Union 
Includes the parishes of Brinkworth, Brokenborough, Charlton, Crudwell, Dauntsey, Easton Grey, Foxley, Garsdon, Hankerton, Hullavington, Lea & Cleverton, Luckington, Malmesbury, Minety, Norton, Oaksey, Sherston, Great Somerford, Sopworth, Westport.
Film Wil 54
Malmesbury Union
Register of Deaths in the Workhouse 1866-1914
For parishes – see above.
Film Wil 54

Melksham Union
Birth & Death Registers in the workhouse 1878-1914.
Melksham Union
Includes the parishes of Hilperton, Melksham, Seend, Semington, Staverton, Trowbridge & Whaddon.
Film Wil 54

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