Brinkworth Photo Gallery

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Charlton - Dauntsey - Garsdon - Lea & Cleverton - Little Somerford - Lydiard Millicent - Lydiard Tregoze - Lyneham - Purton - Tockenham - Wootton Bassett

Websites

Duncan and Mandy Ball's - Website for images of St Michael & All Angels
GenUKI - For information relating to Wiltshire and Brinkworth
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - The Wiltshire County Archives for all historical documents and the place to obtain original copies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.
University of Leicester's - Website for historical Wiltshire directories

The Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

St. Michael & All Angels Church Gallery

Please note Memorial Inscriptions Transcripts are from surviving headstones and other sources and kindly submitted by Pat Bulley

Memorial Inscriptions                  Churchyard Survey (Supplement)                

Parish Register Transcripts

Interesting Entries from the Parish Registers

Baptisms

1653-1674           1675-1699          1700-1724          1725-1749          1750-1774          1775-1799          1800-1824          1825-1849           1850-1899          1900-1910

Banns

1754-1810

Marriages

1605-1812

Burials

1653-1699           1700-1749          1750-1799          1800-1849          1850-1899          1900-1999

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms 1653-1963
Banns 1754-1809
Marriages 1653-2001
Burials 1653-1999
BTs 1840-1864 held at Bristol Record Office

Parish History

Brinkworth includes the tithing of Grittenham

Civil Registration    

1837 - April 1936 Malmesbury Registration District
April 1936 - Present Chippenham Registration District 

Buildings and Land

Maps

Ordnance Surveyor's Drawings 1813-1814               Ordnance Survey Map 1816                Ordnance Surveyor's Drawing North Wilts 1826

Crime and Legal Matters

Assault

Suspicious and Dangerous Fellow at Loose 1752                  Vagrant's Violent Conduct 1843

Bastardy

Bastardy Examinations 1852

Crime Reports

1700-1799                1800-1859

Prisons and Prisoners

Committed to Devizes House of Correction & New Prison 1800-1849                 Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879                 Convicts for Transportation 1830

Proceedings in Chancery Elizabeth I Era (1558-1603)

Archarde v Beale

Directories

Post Office 1855                Post Office 1875                 Kellys 1915                 Swindon & District 1928                 Taylors 1941

Education

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. 35 paupers emigrated to Canada under an assisted emigration programme in 1842, 34 in 1843 and 18 in 1847.

Strays Index

Employment and Business

Agriculture and Land

Game Licenses 1834

Apprentices

Apprentices to London Livery Companies 1629-1722

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 Biss 1725

Communications

British Postal Services Appointments 1737-1969 

Community Services

Police Sergeant Reakes Retires 1932

Miscellaneous Documents

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

Primitive Methodist Chapel     Baptisms 1829-1837  (IGI Batch No. C077631)

Moravian Church Members

John Frey 1721-1777          John Nichols 1724-1785

People and Parish Notables

Accidents

Accidents 1800-1849

Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies

Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1837-1871 

Census Returns Transcripts

1841          1851         1861 (Part)

Coroners Bills

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 of 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 and Polls

Poll of Freeholders 1772          Poll Book 1818           Voters List 1832           Voters Lists Revisions 1843           MP Nominations 2015          MP Nominations 2017

Family Notices

1800-1849          1900-1949

General Items

Knight Compositions 1628                   Secrets of Farming Book Subscribers 1863                   Residents Mentioned in Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879

Parish Notables

Roger Scruton - Philosopher and Writer

Personal Research Items

Tuck Family Research Burial Extracts - This item was donated by Ken Tuck and contains entries that may or may not relate to the Tuck family however they have been published as such.  Many refer to Quaker burials found across the county

Sport

Pony Gymkhana and Sports 1937

Taxes

Brinkworth & Grittenham Tax List 1332                 Falstone Day Book 1645-1653             

Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse

Probate

National Probate Index 1858-1966

Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held

Richard Walrond 1640

Parishioners Wills

1500 - 1599

1600 - 1649

1650 - 1699

1700 - 1799

John Weekes Proved 1763Thomas Nichols 1785 

1800 - 1899

Undecimus Stratton Proved 1808Sarah Stratton Proved 1830 

War, Conflict and Military Matters

War Memorials & Military Gallery

Why the Poppy                Brinkworth War Memorial                Roll of Honour Plaques               War Effort Events 1916