Chilton Foliat Village Photo Gallery
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
East Garston (BRK) - Hungerford - Lambourn (BRK) - Ramsbury
Websites
University of Leicester's - Website for historical Wiltshire directories
Duncan and Mandy Ball's - Website for images of St Mary's Church
GenUKI - For information on Chilton Foliat
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - The Wiltshire County Archives for all historical documents and the place to obtain original copies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 - Chilton Foliat Entry
The Parish Church of St. Mary
St. Mary Church Gallery St. Mary Churchyard Gallery
Church Matters 1800-1849 Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1568-1978
Marriages 1575-1994
Burials 1575-1990
Parish History
(Cilla's farm) derives its second name from the Foliot family, the former owners of Littlecote. The village in placed in well wooded surroundings in the Kennet Valley. The church (St Mary) has an Early English tower, but the remainder has been much restored. There is a good Jacobean barrel roof and a much mutilated effigy of a cross legged knight, thought to be a member of the Foliot family. [source: The Red Book, published by Methuen, 1949]
The parish includes the tithing of Leverton
Civil Registration
1837 - April 1937 Hungerford Registration District
April 1937 - Present Marlborough Registration District
Buildings and Land
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor's Drawings 1818
Public Houses
Crime and Legal Matters
Committed to the Devizes House of Correction & New Prison 1800-1849 Fraud Crime Recalled 150 Years Later 1919
Directories
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875 Kellys 1903 Kellys 1907 Post Office Telephone 1920
Education
There was a National School for boys here
Emigration and Migration
Published in tables from the Poor Law Commissioners Annual Reports for 1835, 1836 and 1847-1848 the following may be of use for tracing missing ancestors. 7 paupers emigrated to South Australia under an assisted emigration programme between April 1839 - April 1840.
Employment and Business
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.
Wiltshire Society Apprentices
George Wait 1835 Philip Stanley Batt 1900
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
There was a Wesleyan Chapel here.
People and Parish Notables
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1837-1871 Family Notices 1850-1899 Family Notices 1950-1999
Coroner Bills & Inquest Reports
County coroners were introduced in England in around 1194 once established other boroughs and liberties sought the right to have their own coroner. Often in Medieval times the coroner also assumed the role of the sheriff and his duties weren't limited to holding inquests on dead bodies although almost a full time post they were unpaid for the duties apart from those that were deemed murder or manslaughter when they would receive 13s. 4d. From the 24th June 1752 a law was passed allowing the coroner to claim £1 for every inquest they attended not held in a gaol and also to claim 9d per mile travel allowance from the place of residence. Inquests held in any gaol were performed at a rate totalling no more than £1. These costs were to be paid from the county rates. In cases of homicide the coroner also received the former fee of 13s. 4d. The coroners submitted their bills at the quarter session sittings for approval. Coroners Bills 1752-1796
Elections. Polls and Voters Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Poll Book 1865
Council Elections
MP Nominations
Inquest Reports
George Packer 1641 Inquest Reports 1800-1849
Sport
Death Ends Strange Golf Match 1938
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Probate
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 St. Mary Roll of Honour Plaque 1914-1918 St. Mary Roll of Honour Stained Glass Window 1939-1945 Why the Poppy
