We have consolidated our A4 publications here
This publication is part of a series dealing with a collection of vagrants passes which is contained in fourteen large boxes dating from 1702 through to 1838 with some breaks in dates. It has been roughly estimated that each box contains over 3000 passes which were for expenses incurred by the passing of vagrants, mostly for those from outside the county, being passed through Wiltshire and its co...
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This publication is part of a series dealing with a collection of vagrants passes which is contained in fourteen large boxes dating from 1702 through to 1838 with some breaks in dates. It has been roughly estimated that each box contains over 3000 passes which were for expenses incurred by the passing of vagrants, mostly for those from outside the county, being passed through Wiltshire and its co...
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45 parishes in area between Alderton, Hankerton, Lacock & Malmesbury, (including Chippenham) The Churchwardens Presentments 1662 offer a unique insight into problems after the Restoration. A4, 24 pages. These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and the...
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73 parishes between Bradford on Avon, Wootton Bassett and Fittleton The Churchwardens Presentments 1662 offer a unique insight into problems after the Restoration. A4, 49 pages. These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and they are an important so...
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50 parishes in area between Amesbury, Laverstock, Martin & Tisbury The Churchwardens Presentments 1662 offer a unique insight into problems after the Restoration. A4, 32 pages. These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and they are an important sou...
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40 parishes in area between Warminster, Salisbury & Downton The Churchwardens Presentments 1662 offer a unique insight into problems after the Restoration. A4, 32 pages. These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and they are an important source for both...
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Visitation of the ‘peculiar’ parishes under the separate jurisdictions of the Dean and Sub Dean of Sarum and the Precentor of the cathedral for the correction of both clergy and laity became a useful means of maintaining the religious settlement of the late 16th century. Practice was standardised by Canons issued in 1603, and it remained an important element in church life for the rest of the ...
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Volumes 1-4 of the Presentments, an overall view of the state of Churches in Wiltshire after the Restoration. Churchwardens Presentments 1662 These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and they are an important source for both local and family historians. The...
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Removal orders, settlement certificates and settlement examination records for the county from 1670 to 1890. Available here as a book. Also available as a CD or download. Go to Section 1 - CDs - compilation and single source - Other compilation and single source CDs and scroll down to CD21 We have provided a free name index to this product, as a pdf file, which can be viewed, downloaded,...
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Softback, 195 pages. THE BROAD Town Charity was conceived by Her Grace Sarah Duchess Dowager of Somerset in her Will dated 17th May 1686, the object being to pay for poor boys to become apprenticed to honest trades and callings. The Duchess bought an estate at Cotmarsh in Broad Hinton so that the rents and profits from it could be used for the apprenticing of four boys from the Manors of Broad T...
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Softback. 348 pages The information in this publication has been taken from the apprenticeship indentures, for boys and girls, most of which are found in the parish collections in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. Numbers of indentures in the parishes vary from 1,754 for Bradford on Avon to just one for Lydiard Millicent but this may not indicate the total apprenticed since the indentures m...
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A4 paperback. 110pp The Wiltshire County Asylum was opened on the 19 September 1851 and cared for its patients until its closure on the 25 October 1995. Many of the patients who were treated remained there until their deaths and were then buried in the grounds of the Asylum. Burials ended on the 1 May 1966 when the available space had been used. Burials were then transferred to the Devizes B...
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A4 paperback. 334pp The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC) holds records for a number of asylums that were in operation from the late 19th century in Wiltshire. The records for this publication are for Wiltshire Asylum (Roundway). They are presented in name order and admission year. There is no name index. A free name index to all four publications will be found on the WFHS website...
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A4 paperback. 490pp The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC) holds records for a number of asylums that were in operation from the late 19th century in Wiltshire. The quantity and scope of the records vary between institutions. These records are for: Fisherton Anger Wilts, Lunatic Asylum. 1813 – 1913 A register or list of the several patients under the care of Mr Charles Finch a...
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A4 paperback - 196pp The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC) holds records for a number of asylums that were in operation from the late 19th century in Wiltshire. The quantity and scope of the records vary between institutions. The records for this publication are for : Box – Kingsdown House. 1792 – 1919 A Register or List of the several Patients confined in the House of Dr Char...
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A4 book softback. 172 pages. We are publishing a Summary and Names Index of some of the Wiltshire manorial court records held in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC). The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by The National Archives, provides information on the surviving records for a manor and their location in the archives holding manorial documents in England. WSHC holds cour...
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A4 softback. We are publishing a Summary and Names Index of some of the Wiltshire manorial court records held in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC). The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by The National Archives, provides information on the surviving records for a manor and their location in the archives holding manorial documents in England. WSHC holds court records for 304 ...
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A4 softback. We are publishing a Summary and Names Index of some of the Wiltshire manorial court records held in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC). The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by The National Archives, provides information on the surviving records for a manor and their location in the archives holding manorial documents in England. WSHC holds court records for 304...
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A4 softback. We are publishing a Summary and Names Index of some of the Wiltshire manorial court records held in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC). The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by The National Archives, provides information on the surviving records for a manor and their location in the archives holding manorial documents in England. WSHC holds court records for 304 ...
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A4 softback. We are publishing a Summary and Names Index of some of the Wiltshire manorial court records held in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC). The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by The National Archives, provides information on the surviving records for a manor and their location in the archives holding manorial documents in England. WSHC holds court records for 304 ...
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A4 softback. We are publishing a Summary and Names Index of some of the Wiltshire manorial court records held in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC). The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by The National Archives, provides information on the surviving records for a manor and their location in the archives holding manorial documents in England. WSHC holds court records for 304 ...
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A4 book. We are publishing a Summary and Names Index of some of the Wiltshire manorial court records held in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC). The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by The National Archives, provides information on the surviving records for a manor and their location in the archives holding manorial documents in England. WSHC holds court records for 304 mano...
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A4 book softback. 269 pages. We are publishing a Summary and Names Index of some of the Wiltshire manorial court records held in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC). The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by The National Archives, provides information on the surviving records for a manor and their location in the archives holding manorial documents in England. WSHC holds cour...
Supplied by: Wiltshire Family History Society Product Ref: WIL-CS257
A4 book softback. We are publishing a Summary and Names Index of some of the Wiltshire manorial court records held in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC). The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by The National Archives, provides information on the surviving records for a manor and their location in the archives holding manorial documents in England. WSHC holds court records f...
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Map of Wiltshire & Contiguous Parishes with index and notes. Single A3 sheet folded to A4...
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