OPC Vacancy

Holt Photo Gallery

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Bradford On Avon – Broughton Gifford – Great Chalfield – Staverton – Whaddon

Websites of Interest

The Parish Church of St. Katharine

St. Katharine’s Gallery          St. Katharine’s Interior Gallery          St.Katharine’s Interior Wall Memorials Gallery          St. Katharine’s Churchyard Gallery

Mary Forster Memorial Tablet 1917          St. Katharine’s Churchyard WWI Memorial          Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions          Church Enlargement 1837

Interior Wall Memorial Inscriptions

Church News     

1900-1999          2000 – Present

Church Supported Charities and Funding

Salisbury Infirmary 1858

Incumbents

Incumbents List           Funeral of Vicar 1901

Parish Register Transcripts

Baptisms

1681-1699          1700-1724          1725-1749          1750-1774          1775-1799          1800-1824          1825-1837

Marriages

1568-1600          1700-1724          1725-1754          1755-1774          1775-1779          1800-1817          1818-1837

Burials

1700-1724

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms 1580-1986
Marriages 1568-1988
Burials 1568-1965

Parish History

Civil Registration

1837 – April 1936 Bradford Registration District
April 1936 – Present Trowbridge Registration District

Buildings and Land

Ham GreenThe CourtsWiltshire Holt Spa & Lodging House for Auction 1802
Property for Sale or Let 1850-1899Holt Farm for Sale 1868Owners of Land 1873
Building & Land News Reports 1900-1949  

Cemetery

Old Cemetery Gallery

Enclosures

Inclosure Notice 1863

General Items

Scott & Gerrish, Fire Certificate 1863

Maps

Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811

Notable Buildings

Great Chalfield Manor

Great Chalfield Manor House 1896         Commercial Postcard Reply to Enquiry 1980

Public Houses

Public Houses Gallery

Three Lions

License Transfer 1864

Railway

Railway Gallery

Holt Railway and its Associations          Great Western Railway Timetable Changes 1874

Crime and Legal Matters

Burglary

Guilty of Burglary 1832          House Burglary 1858

Court Cases

Water Rights Dispute Hargreaves v Fuller 1890

General Items

Crime Reports 1700-1799          Crime Reports 1800-1849

Murder

Case of Threatening to Kill Wife 1861

Prisons and Prisoners

Remand Home 1941

Theft

£5 Note Theft 1864          Theft of a Bicycle Chain 1915

Directories

Post Office 1875          Kellys 1889          Kellys 1915

Education

Holt House School 1861          Congregational School Concert 1915

Emigration and Migration

Employment and Business

Employment and Business Gallery

Advertising

Wiltshire Holt Spa Water Advertisements 1802-1804

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.

Paul Alborn 1752          Elizabeth Baily 1722          George Bean 1730         Thomas Bowyer 1720

Communications

British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969

Community Services

Police

Wiltshire Constabulary 1858

Food, Drink and Brewing

Bakery Business For Sale 1904

General Items

Business Partnership Dissolved 1812          Working Families Survey c1828          West Wilts Laundry 1907-1915

Miscellaneous Documents

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

Non Conformity Gallery

Non-Conformist News 1800-1849          Independent Chapel Bicentenary Celebrations 1862          Sabbath School Presentation 1864

Congregational Church (later the URC)
United Reformed Church

People and Parish Notables

People Gallery

Accidents

Sunday Tragedy 1791         Railway Death 1902

Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies

Horticultural and Cottagers’ Friend Society 1862-1863          Harmonic Society 1863

Bankruptcy

Bankrupts 1812-1898

Census Returns Transcripts

1851

Elections, Polls and Voters Lists

Electoral Registers

The men eligible to vote fell into various categories and depending on this they were allowed to vote at different types of elections. There were owner voters who usually owned a freehold house. There were occupation voters who occupied, but presumably did not own a property. There were lodgers. Finally there was a small group of men who did not live in the parish or have a house in the parish but they had been “registered by the Revising Barrister to vote at Holt”. Some men may have been able to vote in parliamentary, county and parochial elections. Some in parliamentary or parochial elections but not county. Others may have been able to vote in county and parochial but not parliamentary and lastly some may only have been able to vote in parochial. It may go some way to explain why names are listed at two different addresses.  From 1894 women were allowed to vote in some local elections, but not parliamentary, if they were property owners. This explains the appearance of some women on the following registers.

1894-1895          1896          1897          1898          1899          1900

Members of Parliament

MP Nominations 2015          MP Nominations 2017

Polls

Poll of Freeholders 1772          Poll Book 1818

Entertainment

Concerts and Shows

Magic at the White Hart 1858           Grand Concert 1862          Concerts by the Cremona Musical Union 1863

Festivals

Trinity Festival 1858          Annual Festivities 1863

Lectures

Microscope Lecture 1858

Royal Celebrations

Celebrations for the Marriage of the Prince of Wales 1863

Family Notices

1800-1899          1900-1999

Inquests

Lewellen Lewis 1863          Walter Lucas & George Farr 1871          Francis William Ash 1917

Medical Matters

Wilts County Asylum Admissions 1851-1995

Parish Notables

Vidal Sassoon, Hair Stylist and Entrepreneur – evacuated to Holt during WWII and placed with the Lucas family

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

Sport

Cricket

Holt v Bratton July 1863          Bratton v Holt August 1863          Holt v Melksham August 1863          Melksham v Holt September 1863          Kingsdown, Box v Beaven’s Eleven, Holt 1874

Football

Holt Football Team 1902          Holt Football Team 1906-1907          Holt Football Team 1929          Holt Football Team 1935-1937

Shooting

Pigeon Shooting Matches 1858-1863

Tennis

Tennis Club Tournament Advert 1890

Subscriptions

Fifth Annual Report for Negro Emancipation 1830

Wedding Reports

Elsie Alexander & Reginald Elloway 1917          N. G. M. Forster & Dennis G. F. Darley 1917          Angelin Giddon & Sgt. Loder 1917

Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse

Bradford Union Registration Districts 1836           Bradford Union Medical Appointments 1842          Election of Guardians of the Poor 1842          Concert for the Benefit of the Aged Poor 1863

Probate

National Probate Index 1858-1966          Sale of Property of Edward Baily, Deceased, 1917

Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held

John Hall 1632

Parishioners Wills

Edward Lavington Proved 1713          Will & Codicil Extract Jeremiah Godwin 1776-1777

War, Conflict and Military Matters

War Memorials & Military Gallery

Chelsea Pensioners

William Bailey 1806

Servicemen & Families with the 1st Wilts. Regt. in South Africa 1911Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918Egg Collection for Wounded Servicemen 1914-1918
Military Services Tribunals 1914-1918Congregational School Tribute to Old Boys in the Military 1916Successful Concert for Xmas Parcels Appeal 1917
Calne & District Casualty Lists WWIRoll of Honour WWI & WWIIWar Memorial WWI & WWII

WWI

Casualties

Albert Edward Ash 1918           Walter William Ash 1915          Cecil John Buckland 1918          Charles Edwin Hares 1918           William Herbert Ladd 1918

Honours

Double Honour for Holt Soldier 1918

Wounded Servicemen

William Herbert Ladd 1915

Presentations

William Herbert Ladd 1915

Roll of Honour
Victor Wallace Alford 1918Albert Edward BaileyAlbert John Lampy BattenErnest Brimble
 William Clark 1916Alfred James DavisFred Dean
Edward Francis DrewettClement Victor EdwardsWilliam George EdwardsStanley Gosnell
Eric Hunt HardingWilliam Septimus HarrisWilliam George HiggsWilliam Edward Hodges
Reuben HuntleyHenry Thomas HurnAlbert Henry JohnsonWilfred John March
Ralph Hern MorrisHerbert ScrineFrank Herbert SmithFrank Oliver Stokes
Harold Frank Barclay TurnerArthur UsherHarry Vanderstein 1915George Williams
News Reports

Sad News – Death of Victor Wallace Alford 1919

British Red Cross/VAD Volunteers

Nina Forster 1915-1916          Wilda Gee 1916-1919

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to former OPC Liz Corfield for her work carried out on this page.