The OPC is Pauline Witton
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Charlton – Dauntsey – Garsdon – Lea & Cleverton – Little Somerford – Lydiard Millicent – Lydiard Tregoze – Lyneham – Purton – Tockenham – Wootton Bassett
Websites
Brinkworth – Parish Council and community
The Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
St. Michael Gallery St. Michael Interior Gallery St. Michael Churchyard Gallery
Photographed Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions 2023
Church Interior Wall Memorials List of Rectors
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
Marriages
Burials
1650-1699 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
| Manor Rent Survey 1587 | Manor Rent Survey 1602 | Tithe Awards Overview 1840 |
| Tithe Awards Schedule 1840 | Tithe Awards Summary 1840 | Owners of Land 1873 |
| Matthews/Freeth Indenture 1879 |
Cemetery
Land Surveys
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814 Ordnance Survey Map 1816 Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawing North Wilts 1826
Public Houses
Rose & Crown (now the Three Crowns?)
Railway Station
Utilities
Water
Crime and Legal Matters
Assault
Suspicious and Dangerous Fellow at Loose 1752 Vagrant’s Violent Conduct 1843
Bastardy
Crime Reports
Prisons and Prisoners
Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879 Convicts for Transportation 1830
Proceedings in Chancery Elizabeth I Era (1558-1603)
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.
Employment and Business
Agriculture and Land
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.
Communications
British Postal Services Appointments 1737-1969
Community Services
Police
Wiltshire Constabulary 1858 Police Sergeant Reakes Retires 1932
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Methodists
Primitive
Life and Ministry of Charles Portnell 1839-1904
Moravian
Church Members
John Frey 1721-1777 John Nichols 1724-1785
People and Parish Notables
Accidents
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Friendly Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1837-1871
Womens Groups
Women’s Missionary Federation Meeting 1941
Census Returns Transcripts
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
Family Notices
Funeral Reports
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
Taxes
Brinkworth & Grittenham Tax List 1332 Falstone Day Book 1645-1653
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Guardians
Election of Guardians 1837 Election of Guardians 1844 Nomination of Guardians 1886
Tenders
Medical Services
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
Parishioners Wills
1500 – 1599
| Andrewe Barnes 1563 | William Gele 1563 | Richard Barnes 1570 |
| John Pinnell 1570 | Michell Thorne 1570 | Jone Norbone 1572 |
| Robert Lewen 1580 | Elizabeth Foscot 1584 | Jone Webb 1591 |
1600 – 1649
1650 – 1699
1700 – 1799
Ann Cripps 1730 Thomas Nichols 1785 John Weekes Proved 1763
1800 – 1899
Undecimus Stratton Proved 1808 Sarah Stratton Proved 1830
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Brinkworth War Memorial Roll of Honour Plaques War Effort Events 1916
WWII
Grittenham
Ivy House Lakes
History of Grittenham
Grittenham forms part of the parish of Brinkworth
Buildings and Land
Notice of Intended Construction of the Wilts & Berks Canal 1793 Tithe Awards Schedule 1840
Crime and Legal Matters
Bastardy
Bastardy Examination Edna Bullock v Reuben Pinniger 1852
Crime Reports
Proceedings in Chancery Elizabeth I Era (1558-1603)
Directories
Also See Brinkworth Parish Page
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Methodist Chapel Gallery Baptisms 1829-1837 (IGI Batch No. C077631)
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcriptions
Family Notices
Inquest Reports
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
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
Parishioners Wills
Adam Henly Proved 1781 Jacob Henly Proved 1783 Margaret Henly Proved 1786
War, Conflict and Military Matters
Soldiers Who Died in WWI Named in Calne & District Casualty Lists
