Fugglestone St Peter Photo Gallery

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Durnford - Netherhampton - Salisbury - South Newton - Stratford Sub Castle - West Harnham - Wilton - Woodford

Websites

GenUKI - For information on Fugglestone
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - The Wiltshire County Archives for all historical documents and the place to obtain original copies
Wiltshire Community History - Historical information for parishes within the Wiltshire County jurisdiction.
Register of One-Place Studies - Fugglestone St. Peter Entry

The Parish Church of St. Peter

Foulstan & Quidhampton Protestation Return 1641-1642               Grants to Retiring Aged Parish Clerks 1864                  Choir Outing 1883

Parish Register Transcripts

Marriages

1608-1635 (with Bemerton)            1654-1715            1716-1775           1776-1808           1809-1835

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms 1568 - 1991
Marriages 1608 - 1968
Burials 1568 - 1974

Parish History

Extract from National Gazetteer 1868

Fugglestone St. Peter, (or Fulstone, St. Peter), a parish in the hundred of Branch, county Wilts, 3 miles W. of Salisbury, its post town. It is situated at the junction of the rivers Wiley and Nadder, close to the town of Wilton, where there is a station on the Salisbury section of the Great Western railway. The village forms a continuous appendage of the town of Wilton, and participates in its manufactures. The parish includes the chapelry of Bemerton, and the tything of Quidhampton. A monastery was founded here in early Saxon times, in which Ethelbert is said to have been buried. Afterwards a hospital for lepers was established on its site.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Salisbury, of the value with that of Bemerton annexed, of £482. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The register commences in 1658. There are endowments producing above £200 per annum, which are devoted to the hospitals of St. Giles and St. Mary Magdalene. Fairs, chiefly for sheep, are held on the 4th May and 12th September. The Earl of Pembroke is lord of the manor.

Quidhampton is a tything in the parish of Fugglestone St. Peter, county Wilts, 1 mile from Wilton, its post town. It is situated on the river Wiley, and had once a monastery, in which King Ethelbert was buried in 827.

Civil Registration

1837 - April 1936 Wilton Registration District
April 1936 - Present Salisbury Registration District

Buildings and Land

Crime and Legal Matters

Crime Reports 1800-1849          William Talbot - Criminal Career 1837-1852          Fire at Tree Plantation 1870                 Obstructing Railway Charge 1870

Directories

Post Office 1875

Education

Emigration and Migration

Employment and Business

Agriculture

Game Licences 1834            John Edwards Still Working at Age 107 1846

Apprentices

Apprentice records published here may not necessarily mean that the apprentice was from the parish but was apprenticed to a master within the parish.

John Batten 1713 

Miscellaneous Documents

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

People and Parish Notables

Census Returns Transcripts

1841          1851           1861           1871

Elections and Polls

Voters List 1832          MP Nominations 2015

Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse

Wilton Union Guardians Appointed 1835

Probate

Probate Index 1726 (WSHC)

War, Conflict and Military Matters

Why the Poppy