Codford – St. Mary

Codford St. Mary Village Gallery

This page forms a part of the parish of Codford

Parish Church of St. Mary

St. Mary’s Gallery          St. Mary’s Interior Gallery          St. Mary’s Churchyard Gallery

St. Mary New Churchyard Gallery          St. Mary New Churchyard Survey

Church Memorials

Parish Register Transcripts

Marriages

1625-1837

Parish Registers Held at WSHC

Baptisms 1654-1997
Marriages 1654-2003
Burials 1654-1934
Records available from Other Sources

Buildings and Land

Domesday Book          Dangerous Bridge 1861           Wiltshire Cottage Improvement Society – Repair of 3 Cottages 1951

Land Surveys

1936

Listed Buildings

Grade I – Buildings of outstanding architectural or historic interest.

There are no buildings in this part of the village within this category

Grade II* – Buildings are particularly important and of more than special interest.

Church of St. Mary

Grade II – Buildings are nationally important and of special interest.

Property for Auction, Let or Sale

Stockton House Furniture for Sale 1906 & 1920                 Boyton Manor for Rent 1913

Crime and Legal Matters

Crime Reports

1800-1849

Directories

Post Office Telephone 1940

Emigration and Migration

Strays Index

Employment

Apprentices

Wiltshire Society

George Herbert Humphries 1883          Stanley Richard Simper 1910

Communications

Post Office

British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969

Exhibitions

Warminster Industrial Exhibition 1869

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

Chapel of the Holy Cross

In 1317, Sir Oliver de Ingham, the lord of the manor, was granted permission by Edward II to provide two acres of land in Crouchland to Henry de Marey Marsh. Henry was a chaplain and hermit who then built a chapel & hermitage. The boundary of the hermitage adjoined the churchyard and was supposedly marked by two yew trees. Two wooden candlesticks in St. Mary’s Church are made of wood from one of these ancient yews.

Congregational Church

The Independent meeting was founded by Thomas Haytor, with services held in the open air, in cottages and in the barn of Mr Rebbeck. A malt house was fitted up for worship in 1798. A chapel, with schoolroom and adjoining manse was opened on 2nd November, 1811 with Samuel Devenish as the dissenting minister. This became a Congregational Church in 1813.     Further information.

People and Parish Notables

People Gallery

Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies

Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871

Census Returns Transcripts    

1841          1851          1861          1871         1881          1891          1901          1911           1921

Inquest Reports

Inquest Report on an Unknown Man 1832                 Inquest Report on Elizabeth Alford 1845                 Inquest Report on Samuel Ford 1905

Elections and Polls

Poll of Freeholders 1772         Voters List 1832           Poll Book 1865

Family Notices

1800-1849          1900-1949

Parish Notables 

William Creed, Clergyman and Academic was born c1614.  He died in Oxford on the 19th July 1663 at Oxford.  He was Rector of Codford St. Mary and at Stockton.  He also served as Archdeacon of Wiltshire

James Ingram, Academic was born on 21st December 1774 in Codford St. Mary.  He died at Trinity College, Oxford on 4th September 1850

Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse

Reward for Thomas Sparey & James Topp Leaving Families Chargeable to Parish 1837

Probate

Inquisitions Post Mortem

Edward Mompesson 1632           John Toppe 1633          John Topp 1640

War, Conflict & Military Matters

War Memorials & Military Gallery

Military Burial of Neal McCourt 1876          Brig. General Russell Maynard M.B.E. 1988

Anzac Day Services

Anzac Day is one of Australia’s important national commemorative occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces ANZAC – Australian & New Zealand Army Corps during the First World War.          On 25th April, 1915, Australian and New Zealand soldiers – ANZACS, formed part of the allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula, in order to open the Dardanelles to the allied Navies. At the end of 1915, the allied forces were evacuated. Both sides suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. Over 8,000 Australian soldiers were killed. News of the landing on Gallipoli and the events that followed had a profound impact on Australians & New Zealanders at home. The 25th of April soon became the day on which Australians remember the sacrifice of those who had died in the war.          Anzac Day today is a national day of remembrance which commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who have served”.               Anzac Day Gallery

General Information Relating to Australian Servicemen in WWI

Boer War

Casualty – Edwin George Ovens 1871-1900

Word War I

Hints About Food In War Time 1914           Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918          St. Mary Roll of Honour 1914-1918

Casualties of WWI

Codford ANZAC Military Cemetery

A Military Cemetery was established by deed of gift as the “Military Burial Ground”, with a small part reserved for future burials from the parish and is located near St. Mary’s church.  it is now called St. Mary New Churchyard

The “ANZAC” Military Cemetery, established by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, contains the graves of 31 Australian soldiers from WWI, 66 New Zealand soldiers from WWI and 1 Welsh Guards soldier from WWII. It is the second largest ANZAC cemetery located in England, the largest New Zealand war grave cemetery in the U.K.

Mick Smith – A Son of the Bush

Extract from an article written for The Forbes Advocate, NSW, Australia on 23rd February, 1917 by Sergeant-Major G. W. Brownhill:

Mick Smith no doubt in his thoughts before leaving the sunny shores of Australia pictured many possibilities of his career as a soldier, but it is almost safe to say that there never crept into his mind, even a suggestion of the grand military funeral that one day in December would make its solemn way through the little English village of Codford, with the body of Mick Smith on the gun carriage, covered over with the Union Jack. …….. And old Mick Smith is in a lonely, and soon to be untended grave, 13,000 or 14,000 miles from his Australian home.

Thankfully the people of Codford have made sure that these Soldiers are remembered!  See Australian Buried in the Anzac Cemetery for more information on Michael Smith

British Burials

Alfred James Darch 1916          Christopher Thomas Brown 1942

New Zealand Burials

WWI Casualties with Parish Connections

Gilbert Shoemark 1915

WWII

Casualties

Albert Ben Sheppard 1944           Thomas Robert Stacey 1945