OPC Vacancy
Lea and Cleverton Photo Gallery
Contiguous Parishes (Our neighbours)
Brinkworth – Garsdon – Little Somerford – Malmesbury
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of St. Giles
St. Giles Gallery St. Giles Interior Gallery St. Giles Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorial Incriptions
Parish Register Transcripts
Marriages
Parish Registers Held at WSHC
Baptisms 1751-1905
Marriages 1754-1991
Burials 1751-1943
BTs 1839-1862 are held at the Bristol Record Office
Parish History
The parish includes the former parish of Garsdon which has its own parish page
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Malmesbury Registration District
April 1936 – Present Chippenham Registration District
Buildings and Land
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814 Ordnance Survey Map 1816
Crime and Legal Matters
Crime Reports 1800-1849 (Lea) Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879 Eli English – A Very Bad Boy 1855-1891
Directories
Kellys 1915 Swindon & District 1928 Taylors Telephone 1941 (Lea)
Education
Emigration and Migration
From Lea – Published in tables from the Poor Law Commissioners Annual Reports for 1835, 1836 and 1847-1848 the following may be of use for tracing missing ancestors. 6 paupers emigrated to South Australia under an assisted emigration programme between April 1839 – April 1840
United States of America
Utah Pioneer, Abel Smart 1848-1935
Employment and Business
Community Services
Police
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
St. Aldheim’s Roman Catholic Church
Zion Baptist Chapel
Baptist Chapel Gallery Baptist Chapelyard Gallery
Chapel Yard Memorial Inscriptions (100%)
Zion Baptist Chapel – Census 1851
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Vale of the White Horse Hunt Puppy Show 1874
Census Returns Transcripts
1851 (Cleverton)
1851 (Lea)
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll Book 1818 Voters Lists Revisions 1843 MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017
Cleverton
Poll of Freeholders 1772 (Cleverton)
Lea
Poll of Freeholders 1772 (Lea) Voters List 1832 (Lea)
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 and The Workhouse
Poor Law Union
Guardians
Election of Guardians 1837 Election of Guardians 1839 Election of Guardians 1844 Nomination of Guardians 1886
Tenders
Medical Services
Probate
Probate Index 1851 (WSHC) National Probate Index 1858-1966 (Lea)
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
Josias Taylor 1633 Adam Peddington als. Tuck (Lea) 1628
