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Contiguous Parishes
Brixton Deverill – Chicklade – Fonthill Gifford – Heytesbury – Hindon – Mere – Monkton Deverill – Sedgehill – Tisbury with Wardour – West Knoyle
Websites of Interest
Wiltshire Footprints – Family and Parish History for East Knoyle.
The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
St. Mary’s Gallery St. Mary’s Interior Gallery St. Mary’s Churchyard Gallery
Church Backed Charities and Funding
Church Census
Church News
Church Officials
Rectors
Rectors List Fifty Years’ Ministry 1926
Church Temperance Society
Parish Register Transcripts
Interesting Parish Register Entries
Baptisms
1538-1599 1600-1649 1650-1699 1700-1724 1725-1749 1750-1774 1775-1799 1800-1824 1825-1849 1850-1874
Marriages
1538-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 1800-1849 1850-1924
Burials
1500-1599 1600-1649 1650-1699 1700-1749 1750-1799 1800-1849
Parish Registers Held at WSHC
Baptisms – 1538-1874
Marriages – 1538-1990
Burials – 1538-1907
Parish History
A by-pass was built in 1997 making village life a lot quieter. The village is most famous as the birth place of Sir Christopher Wren.
Parish Newsletters
Buildings and Land
Building Improvements
Improvement Loan Applied For 1868
Courts Baron
Surrender – Phillips to Powell 1766
Fires
Five Cottages Fire 1818 Farmhouse and Cottages Destroyed by Fire 1901
Highways & Roads
Amesbury Turnpike v Hindon Highway Board 1868
Landowners
Parochial Meeting of Landowners & Tithe Owners 1837 Owners of Land 1873
Land Surveys
Notable Buildings
Clouds House
Still Family Members Buried in St. Mary Churchyard Preliminary Sale Notice 1931
Property to Let
Business & Dwelling of the late John Williams 1841 Property Occupied by Henry Everett 1845
Property for Let or Sale
Business Premises of Mr. Haslam 1846
Public Houses
Fox and Hounds, The Green off the A303/A360
Remote 16th century rambling inn overlooking the Blackmore Vale.
Seymour Arms
16th century converted farmhouse, used as an alehouse. It is named after the family of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII.
Taxes
Appointment of Select Commissioners for Land and Assessed Taxes 1842
Crime and Legal Matters
Assaults
Alleged Village Scandal 1905 Assault Conviction Quashed 1949
Burglary
Court Cases
Chancery Court Case, Candy v Candy 1861-1862
Crime Reports
Debt & Insolvency
Insolvency Relief of William Smith 1835
Driving Offences
George Miller 1943 George Miller at Semley Common 1943 George Miller Charge at Mere 1946
Lost & Found
Murder
James Wigmore 1805 James Wigmore Murder Revisited 1807
Proceedings in Chancery Elizabeth I Era (1558-1603)
Property Issues
Theft
Wiltshire Assizes
Directories
Education
East Knoyle School
Certificates of Merit
Emigration and Migration
Emigration News
Employment and Business
Agriculture and Land
Threshing Services
Advertising
Bailiffs, Gamekeepers Etc.
Drapers
Auction Sale of Stock in Trade of Mr. Weeks 1853
Labourers
Aspects of the Life of the Wiltshire Agricultural Labourer c1850
Shows
Apprentices
Wiltshire Society Apprentices
Edmund Purnell 1832 (Unelected) Abraham Purnell 1834 Joseph Purnell 1841 Charles Wigmore 1852 Albert John Trowbridge 1903
Communications
Post Office
British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969 Postal Service Contract from Salisbury 1836
Community Services
Police
Exhibitions
Warminster Industrial Exhibition 1869
Manufacturing
Bricks and Tiles Manufacture
Brick and Tile Kiln to Let 1849
Situations Vacant & Wanted
Situations Wanted
Vacancies
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Episcopal Chapel at Hindon
Marriage of George Pittman and Elizabeth Jukes 1848
Independent Meeting House
Primitive Methodists
Teetotal Meeting 1866 Anniversary Services 1867 Anniversary Meeting 1874 Anniversary Meeting 1912
People and Parish Notables
Accidents
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Benefit & Friendly Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871 Wilts Working Men’s Benefit Society Festival & Fete 1912
Bankruptcy
Sale of Assets of Bankrupt John Ewen 1836
Celebrations
Plum Pudding for the Poor in Celebration of the Marriage of Queen Victoria 1840
Census Returns
Coroners Bills & Inquests
Inquest Reports
Individuals
Elections, Polls and Voting Lists
Members of Parliament
Polls & Poll Books
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818
Voters Lists
Entertainment
Family Notices
Funeral Reports
Missing Persons
Charles Ford 1842 Charles Ford Found 1842
Parish Notables
Sir Christopher Wren, Architect 1632-1723
Life of Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723 Tercentenary Celebrations 1932 Tercentenary Service at St. Paul’s 1932
Personal Research Items
Burbidge Surname Burials Extract 1578-1905
Sale of Personal Effects & Property
Auction Sales
Household Effects of Jacob Burbidge 1842 Sale of Land of Mrs. Burbidge 1843
Sport
Cricket
Cricket Match Loss Dispute 1844 Match v Wylye 1861
Hunting
South & North Wilts Hounds
South & West Wilts Hounds
Taxes
Tax List 1332 Falstone Day Book 1645-1653
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
Christopher Bennett 1638 Thomas Bennett 1635 Richard Grobham 1630 Thomas Hunton 1632 Joan Noyes 1623
Parishioners Wills
Jonathan Folliott Proved 1795 Charles Lampard Proved 1787 Joseph Scammell 1789
Probate Estate Notices
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Boer War
Wiltshire Yeomanry – Volunteers for Active Service 1899
WWI
Casualties
War Memorials & Books of Remembrance
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918
WWII
Letter to L. Harding, Member of Wiltshire Working Men’s Conservative Benefit Society 1945 St. Mary Roll of Honour WWII Home Guards 1940-1944
Post WWII Associations
Burma Star Association Members
Wiltshire Regiments
Warminster Troop Wilts. Yeomanry Cavalry – Entertainment at East Knoyle 1860
