OPC Vacancy
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Erlestoke – Imber – Little Cheverell – Potterne – Worton & Marston
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of St. Peter
St. Peter’s Gallery St. Peter’s Interior Gallery St. Peter’s Churchyard Gallery
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1653-1987
Marriages 1654-1994
Burials 1654-1987
Parish History
Great Cheverell has a church (St. Peter) with Perp. W. Tower, nave, porch, and S. chapel with fine roof. The chancel is Early English., and there is a good recessed tomb in N. wall, which may be that of the founder. The fine old S. door should be noticed. There is a marble monument to James Townsend and his wife (1750) and a tablet in the nave to the memory of Sir James Stonehouse, the “Mr Johnson” of Hannah More’s Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, recalls the fact that the “Shepherd” himself, Saunders by name, was also a resident here, and his cottage is still pointed out to visitors. The manor-house is an old building, excellently preserved, with a court-house and cells juxta-position. There is a beautiful view over the valley towards Devizes, and the fine hedgerow elms greatly enhance it. The manufacture of iron sheep-bells, which was carried on here for generations, has come to an end. [source: The Little Guides, Methuen, 1949]
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Devizes Registration District
Buildings and Land
Gaming Notices 1846 Owners of Land 1873
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811
Sales by Auction
Crime and Legal Matters
Assaults
Bastardy
Bastardy Examinations 1839-1875
Debtors
Prisoners in Fisherton Gaol 1761
Fraud
Miscellaneous Items
Crime Reports 1800-1849 Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879 Crime Reports 1850-1899
Theft
Son Steals Family Chickens 1846
Directories
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875 Gillmans 1900 Kellys 1915
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
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.
Wiltshire Society Apprentices
Communications
British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969
Community Services
Police
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Dowding Family, Mormon Pioneers 1866-1868
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Friendly Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843 MP Nominations 2015
Entertainment
Family Notices
Personal Research Items
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
Poor Law Union Bread & Flour Contract 1838
Probate
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
WWI
WWI Serving Military Personnel 1914
Casualties
Obituaries
VAD/Red Cross Volunteers
War Memorials & Books of Remembrance
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918
WWII
Casualties
Funeral Report of Sydney William Brown, RN 1940
