OPC Vacancy
Broughton Gifford Photo Gallery
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Atworth – Great Chalfield – Holt – Melksham – Whaddon
Websites of Interest
Broughton Gifford – Village Hall
The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Interesting Entries from the Parish Registers Church News 1900-1999 Church News 2000 – Present
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1665-1928
Marriages 1667-1991
Burials 1665-1942
Parish History
(broc-tun, OE = farm on the brook). The stone houses are set picturesquely round an extensive village green. The church (St. Mary), partly EE, and partly Perp., was restored in 1878. It contains a brass to Robert Longe (1620). There are some interesting houses in the parish. The manor-house was built by Sir John Horton in 1622, and Cromwell is said to have slept there before the battle of Roundway. Monkton, now a farm, is supposed to have been built by the Earl of Hertford, son of Lord Protector Somerset, to whom the manor of Monkton came when Monkton Farleigh priory was suppressed. Gifford Hall, on the Common, was erected by William Harding c. 1700, and contains a good ceiling over the staircase. [source: The Little Guides, Methuen, 1949]
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Bradford Registration District
April 1936 – Present Trowbridge Registration District
Buildings and Land
Cemetery
Inquisitions of Lands Held
Land Surveys
Landowners
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811
Public Houses
Rusty Stag
Let 2020
The Bell
Crime and Legal Matters
| Trial at the Old Bailey for Stealing a Mare 1695 | Crime Reports 1800-1899 | John Gay Sentenced to Transportation 1812 |
| Charge of Damaging Underwood 1868 | Water Rights Dispute Hargreaves v Fuller 1890 |
Directories
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875 Kellys 1915
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. 5 paupers emigrated to South Australia under an assisted emigration programme in 1842 and 7 to Canada in 1842.
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.
Wiltshire Society Apprentices
Jacob Bull 1858 James Bull 1858
Community Services
Police
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Baptist Chapel
Methodist Church
People and Parish Notables
Accidents
Fatal Horse & Cart Accident 1846
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1837-1871
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 MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017
Entertainment
Trinity Festival at Holt 1858 Hunt Ball 1929
Family Notices
Wedding Reports
Wedding Report of Miss Montagu 1881
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Election of Guardians of the Poor
Election of Guardians of the Poor March 1842 Election of Guardians of the Poor June 1842
Election of Poor Law Officers
Election of Poor Law Union Officers 1835 Bradford Union Medical Appointments 1842
Miscellaneous Items
Bradford Union Registration Districts 1836 Tender to Survey Parishes for Poor Rate Assessment 1837 Poor Law Union Audit 1849
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
Inquisitions Post Mortem
Robert Bull 1642 Nicholas Gore 1631
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
| Diocese of Salisbury Remembrance Book 1914-1918 | Egg Collection for Wounded Servicemen 1914-1918 | WWI Church War Memorial |
| Roll of Honour Plaque 1914-1918 | Re-dedication of Newly Restored War Memorial 2015 |
Servicemen and Women
Servicemen & Families with the 1st Wilts. Regt. in South Africa 1911
WWI
Casualties
Victor Wallace Alford 1918 Frederick William James Young 1918
News Reports
Sad News – Death of Victor Wallace Alford 1919
