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Charlton St. Peter Photo Gallery
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Market Lavington – Orcheston St. George – Rushall – Wilsford
Websites of Interest
Charlton St.Peter – Parish Council
The Parish Church of St. Peter
St. Peter’s Gallery St. Peter’s Interior Gallery
Interior Wall Memorial Inscriptions
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Marriages
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1695-1986
Marriages 1695-1984
Burials 1695-1985
Parish History
The parish is also known as Great Charlton Population was 183 in 1831, 103 in 1951.
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Pewsey Registration District
April 1936 – Present Devizes Registration District
Buildings and Land
Public Houses
Charlton Cat
Formerly the Poore’s Arms
Crime and Legal Matters
Directories
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875 Gillmans 1900 Gillmans 1914
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. 7 paupers emigrated to Canada under an assisted emigration programme between July 1838 – April 1839 and 7 in 1843. (These may refer to Charlton near Malmesbury or Charlton All Saints near Downton)
Employment and Business
Agriculture & Land
Gamekeepers Certificates 1807 Gamekeepers Certificates 1834 Sale at Compton Farm, Enford 1870
Communications
British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations, Societies and Sport
Friendly Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society
Membership 1837-1871 Society Promotion 1912
Census Returns Transcript
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843
Family Notices
General Items
Parish Notables
Stephen Duck – Poet and Clergyman born in Charlton c1705, committed suicide by drowning in Reading, Berkshire 21st March 1756 . He was buried in St. Andrew Churchyard, Sonning, Berkshire. An annual commemorative feast, the Duck Feast, is held at the Charlton Cat Inn in the village. It is funded by the revenue from a field (“Duck’s Acre”) presented by Lord Palmerston, to whom Duck had dedicated a volume of poetry.
Taxes
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Union Workhouse Chaplain to Resign 1838 Pewsey Union Supplies Tender Notice 1846
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
John Charles 1311 Giles Tooker 1627
Parishioners Wills
Elizabeth Pottinger Proved 1811
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Roll of Honour WWI
