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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Bromham – Calne – Derry Hill with Pewsham – Lacock – Melksham
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of St. Mary
St. Mary’s Gallery St. Mary’s Interior Gallery St. Mary’s Churchyard Gallery
Church Officials
Vicars List 1845-1969 New Deacon Ordained 1861
Church Supported Charities
Poor Benefice Fund Grants 1880
A dwindling population and congregation caused the church to close and it became a private dwelling house in the 1980’s.
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Banns
Marriages
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1846-1912
Marriages 1846-1978
Burials None listed
For Chittoe entries prior to 1846 please refer to Bishops Cannings, Bromham, Calne and Chippenham Parish Registers
Parish History
Chittoe has a modern church, Sloperton Cottage, where Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, spent a large portion of his late life, is in the parish. There are traces of the Wansdyke here, and the name survives at Wans House. It is occasionally merged in the Roman road from Bath to Marlborough, which here passes through Spye Park. [source: The Red Guide, Methuen 1949]
Chittoe is also known as Chitway
Chittoe was a detached portion of the Bishop’s Cannings parish and became a parish in its own right in 1867.
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Devizes Registration District
Buildings and Land
Sloperton Cottage home of poet Thomas Moore, the Irish Poet.
Inclosure Award Extract 1812-1813 Leasehold & Copyhold Estates (extract) 1824 Tithe Awards 1849
Landowners
Parting Letter of Mr. Estcourt 1859 Owners of Land 1873
Crime and Legal Matters
Bastardy
Crime Reports
Debtors
Prisoners in Fisherton Gaol 1761
Directories
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875 Gillmans 1914
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
This section is awaiting information to be compiled
Miscellaneous Documents
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
The Heath Methodist Chapel closed in the 1980’s and has been converted to a private dwelling. There is some evidence that a chapel may have existed during the mid 16th century.
People and Parish Notables
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 or 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 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843
Family Notices
General Items
Parish Notables
Thomas Moore, Irish Poet & Writer was born in Dublin, Ireland on 28th May 1779. He died at Sloperton Cottage, Chittoe on 25th February 1852. He is buried in the churchyard at Bromham
Personal Research Items
Tuck Family
Tuck Family Research Burial Extracts
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Poor Law Union Bread & Flour Contract 1838
Probate
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Service Personnel
War Memorials and Books of Remembrance
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918
British Red Cross/VAD Volunteers
Eliza Breach 1916-1919 Jane Gee 1916-1919 Lottie Gee 1916-1919 Celia Laverton 1916-1919
