The OPC is Ali Walker
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Atworth – Bathford (SOM) – Corsham – Ditteridge – Monkton Farleigh – South Wraxall
Websites
Box – People and places.
The Parish Church of St. Thomas A Becket
St. Thomas Gallery St. Thomas Interior Gallery St. Thomas Interior Wall Memorials St. Thomas Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions Interior Wall Memorial Inscriptions
Francis Speke – Black Marble Slab 1610-1683 George Speke – Black Marble Slab 1653-1682 Vicars List
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
1532-1599 1600-1624 1625-1649 1650-1699 1700-1724 1725-1749 1750-1774 1775-1799 1800-1824 1825-1849 1850-1874
Marriages
Burials
1578-1749 1825-1849 1850-1899 1900 – Present
Please note that the Baptisms, Marriages and Burials have been transcribed from several different sets of source material but not directly from the parish registers. They may contain gaps.
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1538-1973
Marriages 1538-1994
Burials 1538-1951
Parish History
Includes the hamlets of Ashley, Corton, Hazelbury Manor, Kingsdown, Middle-Hill, Wadswell and Wadswick
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Chippenham Registration District
Buildings and Land
Cemetery
Chapel
Chapel Gallery Chapel Interior Gallery Cemetery Memorial Gallery
Chapel – German Luftwaffe Crewmen 1940 Brief History
Indentures
Hodson & Mansell to Lee 1768 Northey to Brown 1865
Landowners
Owners of Land 1873 Rent Receipt for Miss Shewring 1896
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811
Public Houses
Queens Head
Railway
Roads and Highways
Sheppards Shord & Sand Lane Turnpike Upkeep 1789 Road Changes 1801 Corsham Turnpike Notice 1846
Crime and Legal Matters
Courts
Committed to the County Gaol 26.5.1874
Crime Reports
Prisons and Prisoners
Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879
Swing Riots
Swing Riots of 1830-1831 – Commissioners Report 1834
Victims of Crime
Directories
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875 Kellys 1867 Kellys 1889 Kellys 1915
Education
Emigration and Migration
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.
Charles Alland 1752 Thomas Aust 1757 Ann Baber 1757 James Bayly 1720 Richard Collet 1728
Wilshire Society Apprentices
Aviation
Certificates
Ronald Walter Gaynor Kitley 1934
Builders
Communications
British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969
Community Services
Police
Wiltshire Constabulary 1858 Police Sergeant Reakes Retires 1932
Medical
General Medical Council Registrations 1859-1959 Nurse – Charlotte Matilda Case 1890 Nurse – Louisa Case
Quarrymen
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Box Methodist Church, High Street
Free Methodist Chapel
Hazelbury Church
Plymouth Brethren Gospel Hall
Methodist Chapel, Kingsdown
People and Parish Notables
Accidents, Sudden Deaths and Suicides
Sudden Death of Mr. Mitchell 1812 Schoolteacher Takes Own Life by Poison 1939
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1837-1871 St. John Ambulance Fete and Prize Giving 1950
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
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 | Electoral Register 1909 | MP Nominations 2015 |
| MP Nominations 2017 |
Entertainment
Family Notices
1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1949 1950-1999
General Items
People News 1800-1849 Secrets of Farming Book Subscribers 1863
Inquest Reports
Obituaries
Obituary of Charles Howse 1896
Parish Notables
Rev. Wilbert Awdry, Clergyman and author of the Thomas the Tank Engine Railway Series, was born in Amptfield, Hampshire on 15th June 1911; Died 21st March 1997 in Rodborough, Gloucestershire. His ashes are interred at Gloucester Crematorium. He was resident of Box between 1920-1928.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil & Mechanical Engineer. was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire on 9th April 1806. He died in Westminster, London on 15th September 1859 and is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. He engineered the ingenious Box Tunnel and was greatly involved with railway works and innovations at Chippenham & Swindon with the Great Western Railway
David Hempleman-Adams, Industrialist & Adventurer, was born on 10th October 1956 in Moredon, Rodbourne Cheney and is resident of this parish
Clive Andrew Mantle, British Actor – Born in Barnet, Hertfordshire on 3rd June 1957. He has lived in the parish. He is best known for roles in Casualty and Holby City and as Little John in Robin of Sherwood, much of which was filmed in the county. One of the funniest scenes he was in was that of wandering hand in hand along a puddle ridden pathway with Dawn French as Geraldine Granger in the Vicar of Dibley when then decide to jump in the puddles, with the starry-eyed vicar jumping into a puddle that turned out to be a rather deep water filled pot-hole
People of the Parish
Life of Rev. Horatio Moule 1805-1886
Personal Research Items
Tuck Family Research Burial Extracts – These items were 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 references to Quaker entries may be found from across the county.
Sport
Cricket Match – Kingsdown, Box v Beaven’s Eleven, Holt 1874
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Probate
Probate Index 1790 (WSHC) National Probate Index 1858-1995
Inquisitions Post Mortem
Parishioners Wills
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Muster Roll 1539 Servicemen & Families with the 1st Wilts. Regt. in South Africa 1911
Chelsea Pensioners
William Hodges 1795 Thomas Pullen 1798
Widow’s Army Pension List
Major General James Wilson 1847
Royal Navy
Commander Benjamin Dyke Acland 1847-1909
WWI
Church Roll of Honour 1914-1918
British Red Cross/VAD Volunteers
Casualties
War Memorials and Books of Remembrance
WWII
Church Roll of Honour 1939-1945
Home Guard
Home Guards 1940-1944 Home Guard Awards 1944
Service Awards
Read about the sad story of Arctic Convoy Veteran Herbert Jacobs who passed away just 90 minutes after receiving his medal
Hazelbury
Hazelbury Manor
Non-Conformity
The Pilgrims Chapel, Chapel Plaister
Probate
Parishioners Wills
Kingsdown
The Swan
Buildings and Land
Kingsdown House Lunatic Asylum Census 1841
Public Houses
The Swan
