OPC Vacancy
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Berwick Bassett – Overton – Preshute – Winterbourne Monkton
Websites of Interest
Fyfield – Village Website.
Upper Kennett News – Village Heritage.
The Parish Church of St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas Gallery St. Nicholas Interior Gallery St. Nicholas Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Parish Documents
Fyfield Protestation Return 1641-1642
Parish Officials
Parish Register Transcripts
The BMD transcriptions 1682-1717 are also within the registers of the Overton Parish Page.
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1732-1969
Marriages 1732-1995
Burials 1732-1991
Parish History
Origin of place names A Village Sacrificed 1950
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Marlborough Registration District
Buildings and Land
Summary of Estates 1939-1940 Sarsen Stones
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawing North Wilts 1826
Public Houses
Fighting Cocks
Crime and Legal Matters
Swing Riots Special Constables 1830
Proceedings in Chancery Elizabeth I Era (1558-1603)
Bennett v Reeves, Warren & Eyres
Directories
Post Office 1875 Swindon & District 1928
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Community Services
Police
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901
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 of 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.
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843
Family Notices
Taxes
Tax List – Elstub Hundred 1322
Parish Notables
Sir Anthony Eden, Statesman & British Prime Minister David Hemery, Olympic Athlete Gold Medalist
Subscribers
Fifth Annual Report for Negro Emancipation 1830
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem
John Walraund 1309 William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke 1630 Edmund Ludlow 1625
