Garsdon

OPC Vacancy

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Brinkworth – Charlton – Lea & Cleverton – Malmesbury

Websites of Interest

The Parish Church of All Saints

(Grass Hill) is in the former Braden Forest, a name still commemorated in Braden Pond, which lies to the east of it. The church (All Saints), well placed on a hill, has been rebuilt except for the tower. It contains some memorials of the Washington family, one of which, that of Sir Laurence, has been restored by the American Bishop Peter. Sir Laurence became possessed of the manor in the reign of Henry VIII. George Washington was a descendant of the Northamptonshire branch of the family. (The Little Guides 1949, Methuen)

All Saints Gallery All Saints Churchyard Gallery

Old Burial Ground Map Churchyard Memorial Transcriptions

Parish Register Transcripts

Burials

1813-1849 1850-1899 1900-1917

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms 1682-1989
Marriages 1682-1986
Burials 1682-1991
BTs 1839-1865 are held at the Bristol Record Office

Parish History

Garsdon is a parish 2 miles East North East of Malmesbury Station on the Great Western Railway. Post town, Malmesbury, under Chippenham; money order and telegraph office , Malmesbury. Acreage, 1128l population of the civil parish, 141; of the ecclesiastical, 591. The living is a rectory, united with the Vicarage of Lea, in the Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value , £300 with residence. The church is modern, and there is a Methodist chapel [Source:- Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1895]

Civil Registration

1837- April 1936 Malmesbury Registration District
April 1936 – Present Chippenham Registration District

Education

Emigration and Migration

Strays Index Links to George Washington

Employment and Business

Miscellaneous Documents

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

People and Parish Notables

Census Returns Transcripts

1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901

Elections and Polls

Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters Lists Revisions 1843

Family Notices

1800-1849

Personal Research Items

Hatton, Lewis, Stump and Tilling Research

Gordon Lewis author of Limb and Blood – The Story of a Wiltshire Family, has a request for assistance in identifying people in a photograph of a coronation celebration believed to be that of George V in 1911. Coronation Photograph 1911

Tuck Research

Tuck Family Research Burial Extracts – This item was donated by Ken Tuck and contains entries that may or may not relate to the Tuck family however they have been published as such. Many refer to Quaker burials found across the county

Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse

Charity

Rector’s Poem to Raise Funds for Shrewton Floods 1841

Poor Law Union

Guardians

Election of Guardians 1837 Election of Guardians 1839 Election of Guardians 1844 Nomination of Guardians 1886

Tenders

Medical Services

1837 1839