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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Blunsdon St. Andrew – Castle Eaton – Cricklade – Eisey – Hannington – Stanton Fitzwarren – Stratton St. Margaret
Websites of Interest
Blunsdon – Parish Council, news and events.
The Parish Church of St. Leonard
St. Leonard’s Gallery St. Leonard’s Interior Gallery St. Leonard’s Churchyard Gallery
The Potenger Memorial Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions A Peal of Doubles 1923 Church Interior Wall Memorials
Parish Registers
Please note that the transcripts below may be incomplete or have missing entries and gaps
Baptisms
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1679-1956
Marriages 1685-1996
Burials 1680-1990
Bishops Transcripts 1840-1859 held at Bristol Record Office
NB Transcriptions of Highworth parish registers include BMD’s for people living in Broad Blunsdon.
Parish History
Broad Blunsdon, historically a Chapelry in Highworth, is 5 miles north of Swindon. The parish is also known as Blunsdon St. Leonard
Civil Registration
1837 – 1898 Highworth Registration District
1898 – Present Swindon Registration District
Buildings and Land
Blunsdon Cemetery
Cemetery Memorial Inscriptions
Indentures
Maps
Ordnance Survey Map 1816 Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1816
Public Houses
Crime and Legal Matters
Parishioners Eligible to Serve as Jurors 1771 Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879 Crime Reports 1850-1899
Directories
Post Office 1855 Kellys 1867 Post Office 1875 Swindon & District 1951
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Apprentices
Wiltshire Boys Apprenticed in Oxfordshire
Community Services
Police
Wiltshire Constabulary 1858 Death of PC Andrew Hancock 1875
Trades Unions
Members
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1837-1871
Census Returns Transcripts
Children
Childrens Corner Evening Advertiser 1948
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, Polls and Voting Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818
Family Notices
General People Items
Secrets of Farming Book Subscribers 1863
Memoriam
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Donation of Sheep to the Poor 1839
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966 Beneficiaries to Estate Sought 1894
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
Inquisition of Thomas Phillipps 1628
Parishioners Wills
Will Extract of Christopher Dugdale 1706 Robert Strainge Proved 1822
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorial & Military Gallery
Soldiers Who Died in WWI Named in Calne & District Casualty Lists War Memorial
