The OPC is Eric Read
Contiguous Parishes
Alvediston – Berwick St. John – Donhead St. Andrew – Swallowcliffe – Tisbury with Wardour
Websites of Interest
Nadder Valley Focus – Ansty Page
The Parish Church of James
(OE. Anstig = steep path) has a small cruciform EE. church (St. James) which has been mush restored. It contains some 17th-cent. bench-ends by Wyatt from Salisbury Cathedral. To the N. of the Church is an old Perp. building , now used as a workshop, which is said to have belonged to Shaftesbury Abbey ( The Little Guide 1949, Methuen).
St. James Gallery St. James Interior Gallery St. James Churchyard Gallery
Ansty was a royal free chapel and the only parish in the county with no ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Copies of registers were not required to be sent to the Bishop (Bishops Transcripts). Couples could marry here regardless of Banns or License. It also married couples when periods of canon law prohibited marriage.
Church Buildings and Repairs
Appeal to Provide a Residence for the Minister 1834 Salisbury Diocesan Church Building Association 1842 Disestablished Parish 1877 Poor Benefice Fund Grants 1880
Church News
Church Officials
Incumbents List Clergy News 1800-1899 Grants to Retiring Aged Parish Clerks 1864
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Churchyard
Memorial Inscriptions Memorials other than Gravestones
Knights Hospitallers
Commandery and Ansty Church 1963
Parish Register Transcripts
Extracts from the Parish Register
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1654-1992
Marriages 1655-2005
Burials 1655-1991
Parish History
Extracts from the History of Modern Britain 1929 Early History 1988 Village and the Maypole 1988
Civil Registration
1837 – 1936 Tisbury Registration District
1936 – 1974 Mere, then Salisbury
Maps
Maypole
2012 Maypole Celebrations New Maypole 1937
Buildings and Land
Farms
Property Sales
Leasehold Property for Sale or Let 1780 Auction Sale – Mary King 1860 Auction Sale – Mr. Foster 1861
Public Houses
Arundell Arms
Maypole Inn
The inn closed in the 1990s and is now used as a residential property
Crime and Legal Matters
Agriculture and Land
Compensation for Cattle Eating Apples 1897 Farmer Makes Three Claims 1922 Farmer Assaulted in Courtroom 1937 Hedge Dispute 1949
Animal Related
Alleged Misrepresentation 1895 Horse Dealing Dispute 1937
Assaults
Assault on Husband and Wife 1838
Bastardy
Betting and Gaming Laws
Courts & Civil Court Cases
Hiscock & Wright v Burt 1893 Farmer and His £50 Car 1921
Jurors Lists
General Crime
Crime Reports 1800-1849 Crime Report 1850-1899
Licensing
Motoring Offences
£100 Award for Motorcyclist 1940
Poaching
Alleged Poaching Charges Dismissed 1945
Riots
Minister Convicted of Riot 1818
Theft
Directories
| Kellys 1848 | Post Office 1855 | Post Office 1859 | Kellys 1867 | Post Office 1867 | Kellys 1880 | Kellys 1889 |
| Kellys 1898 | Kellys 1903 | Kellys 1907 | Kellys 1911 | Kellys 1915 | Kellys 1923 | Kellys 1931 |
| Kellys 1939 |
Education
Salisbury Diocese Board of Education 1800-1849
Emigration and Migration
Strays Index Emigrant – Henry Lever 1822-1890 Emigrants – Robert & Charlotte Rabbetts 1854
Employment and Business
Agriculture
Gamekeeping
Game Notice 1805 Gamekeepers Certificates 1807 Gamekeepers Certificates 1834 Game Licenses 1846
Thatching
Apprentices
John Burton 1718 Jacob Targitt 1724
Wiltshire Society Apprentices
General Items
Lever & Sons Business Partnership Dissolved 1882
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Roman Catholicism
Papist Oath of Allegiance 1792 Broughton Catholic Charitable Society Members 1844
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Bankruptcy
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Elections, Polls and Voting Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Election Celebration Dinner 1819 Voters List 1832 Electoral Roll 1939 MP Nominations 2015
Family Notices
Inquest Reports
| John Bowels 1818 | Ernest Silas Brain 1941 | William Coombes 1867 | John Richard Lever 1937 | Lot Lever 1821 | Luke Lever 1836 |
| Ann Penny 1910 | Walter Rowe 1938 |
Obituaries
Louisa Baker 1934 Henry William Steele 1941
Parish Notables
Richard Zouch – English Judge and MP – Born c 1590 in Ansty – Died 1 March 1661 in London.
Taxes
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
Estate Notices
John Butt 1809 George Wardner 1817
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
WWI
WWI Casualties Short Biographies
Casualties
Bertram Seymour Baker 1918 George Henry Baker 1916 Davis Stanley Macey 1915
War Memorials & Book of Remembrance
War Memorials & Rolls of Honour
St. James Church War memorial & Roll of Honour
Books of Remembrance
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918
WWII
WWII Casualty Biographies The Fighting Sullivans 1942 Home Guards 1940-1944
