The OPC is Samantha Butler
Contiguous Parishes
Box – Broughton Gifford – Corsham – Great Chalfield – Melksham – South Wraxall
Websites
Bradford on Avon Museum – Has a few objects from Atworth
Wiltshire Heritage Museum – Devizes has some objects which were excavated from the Roman Villa in Atworth.
Atworth Village website – Village Information
Parish Church of St. Michael
St. Michael’s Gallery St. Michael’s Interior Gallery St. Michael’s Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions Interior Wall Tablet Inscriptions
Incumbents
Clergy News 1800-1899 New Deacon Ordinated October 2012 Clergy List
Parish Register Transcripts
Marriages
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1645-1971
Marriages 1654-1993
Burials 1654-1992
Parish History
This parish was also known as Atford
History of Atworth Tour Through Atworth Then and Now
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Bradford Registration District
April 1936 – Present Trowbridge Registration District
Buildings and Land
Indenture of Hannah Moore 1841 Owners of Land 1873 Roman Villa 1937-1938
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811
Public Houses
Foresters Arms
Situated on the Bradford Road. Known as the The Thirsty Beggar in the 1990s
New Inn
Situated on the Bath Road. The Pub closed in the 1960s
Red Lion
White Hart
Crime and Legal Matters
Arson
Charge of setting Fire to a Wheat-Rick 1870
Commercial Crime
Malting Regulations Breach 1802-1813
General Items
Crime Reports 1800-1849 Crime Reports 1850-1899
Murder
Murder Charge Against Gamekeeper 1850
Poaching
Quarter Session Appearances
Moses Pickwick Bath 1875 Moses Bath 1875-1876
Prisons and Prisoners
Convicts sent to Prison Hulks 1823-1842
Victims of Crime
Directories
Post Office 1855 Kellys 1867 Post Office 1875 Kellys 1911 Kellys 1915 Kellys 1939
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Agriculture and Land
Game Licenses 1834 (Cottles)
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
Stephen Roberts 1831 Isaac Roberts 1836 Edward Bath 1852
Community Services
Police
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Atworth Independent Church, Bath Road
Congregational Chapel (now Independent Church)
Atworth – Independent Church
The Chapel was built in the 1790s. It is affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches.
Congregational Chapel Gallery Independent Church Gallery Independent Churchyard Memorials
Churchyard Memorials Inscriptions
Ebenezer Baptist Chapel
A private house since 1979.
St. Francis de Paula Roman Catholic Church (Cottles)
Registers for Births/Baptisms 1858-1876 and for Deaths/Burials 1859-1871 for the Roman Catholic Church, Cottles, Atworth are held at the Bristol Record Office.
People and Parish Notables
Knight Compositions 1628 Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871 Outstanding Contribution to the Parish Award 2015
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Voters Lists Revisions 1843 MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017
Coroners 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 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
Inquest Reports
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Bradford Union Registration Districts 1836 Bradford Union Medical Appointments 1842 Election of Guardians of the Poor 1842
Probate
Probate Index 1847-1881 (WSHC) National Probate Index 1858-1966
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
Parishioners Wills
Thomas Pinchin, Snr. Proved 1646 Edward Willsheare Proved 1651 Thomas Dancey Proved 1834
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Boer War
Imperial Yeomanry Casualties 1899-1902
Servicemen and Women
Servicemen & Families with the 1st Wilts. Regt. in South Africa 1911
Chelsea Pensioners
Crimea
Veteran Elijah James 1920 Death of Crimean Veteran Elijah James 1920
WWI
Casualties
Biographies
Casualty Biographies Victor Wallace Alford 1918 Oliver Burgess 1914 Arthur George Reynolds 1918
Mercantile Marine
Medal Awards
News Reports
Sad News – Death of Victor Wallace Alford 1919
For King and Country
Memorials and Commemorative Items
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Atworth War Memorial 1914-1918
WWII
Casualty Biographies Roll of Honour 1939-1945
