OPC is Amanda Wood-Woolley
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
All Cannings – Patney – Potterne – Southbroom – Stert
Websites of Interest
The registers of Allcannings, and Etchilhampton – American Libraries – these have been transcribed.
The Parish Church of St. Andrew
St. Andrew’s Gallery St. Andrew’s Interior Gallery St. Andrew’s Churchyard Gallery Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Church Building
Church Memorial Plaques
Edmund, Susanna & Mary Hitchcock Jane Hitchcock 1829 Louisa Susanna and Elizabeth Giddings Hitchcock 1840
Church Officials
Parish Register Transcripts
Notes from the Parish Registers
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1630-1944
Marriages 1630-1982
Burials 1630-1992
Parish History
In the 1861 census the parish of Etchilhampton was recorded as Ashelton
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Devizes Registration District
Gazetteers
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales 1895
Buildings and Land
Labourer’s Friend Society Meeting at Devizes 1833 Owners of Land 1873
Crime and Legal Matters
Crime Reports 1800-1849 Assault on Postman 1865 Baker Sold Underweight Bread 1870
Bastardy Examinations
The definition of a bastard for the period when examinations were carried out by parish overseers and local justices is as follows:- any child born out of wedlock including those where the mother and father later marry, children of a second marriage whilst the first wife is still living; the issue of divorced couples; children born where the husband is known to have been abroad for some year; A child born after the father has died. The definition has evolved since the Act of 1732/33 where a “single mother” was by law obliged to declare her pregnancy and state the name of the reputed father. Some parish registers may record the words base-born against a baptism record and some may even name the reputed father. Below are some of the surviving bastardy examination reports transcribed from various sources such as court books and overseers accounts. It is interesting to note that only the mother’s and witnesses’ oaths seem to be recorded even though the defendant would have been summoned to the hearing. Perhaps their evidence was pre-delivered for the examiners to peruse before the mother was required to prove her case. It is also interesting to read the language used to describe the situation the mother found herself in and the circumstances in which the child was conceived. It would appear that the examination itself would not have been a pleasant experience for plaintiff or defendant no matter what the outcome. Bastardy Examinations
Directories
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875 Kellys 1915 Kellys 1931
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Agriculture, Farming & Land
Sale at Compton Farm, Enford, 1870
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
Aviation
Aviation Certificates
Medicine
Medical License for William Dorchester 1700
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations & Societies
Agricultural Societies
Wiltshire Agricultural Society Annual Meeting 1848
Friendly Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll of Freeholders 1772 (Ashlington) Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843 MP Nominations 2015
Family Notices
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Poor Law Union Bread & Flour Contract 1838
Probate
Parishioners Wills
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorial & Military Gallery
WWI
Casualty Biographies
Joseph Harry (Henry) Green 1916
War Memorials and Books of Remembrance
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Roll of Honour Plaque 1914-1918 WWI Church Memorial – Tom Cox & John Plank
