The OPC is Paul Vivash
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Burbage – Froxfield – Great Bedwyn – Mildenhall – Ramsbury – Savernake – Shalbourne
Websites of Interest
Little Bedwyn Notice Board – Parish Information
The Parish Church of St. Michael
St. Michael’s Gallery St. Michael’s Interior Gallery St. Michael’s Churchyard Gallery
Extracts from the Registers of John Chandler 1404-1417 Incumbents List 1554-1829
Parish Register Extracts
Marriages
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1722-1857
Marriages 1722-1959
Burials 1722-1919
Parish History
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1937 Hungerford Registration District
April 1937 – Present Marlborough Registration District
Buildings and Land
Domesday Book Entry 1086 Feet of Fines 1377-1509 Tithe Apportionments 1840 Savernake Cottage Hospital 1869 Owners of Land 1873
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1809
Crime and Legal Matters
Eyre Rolls 1249 Quarter Sessions 1563-1592
Crime Reports
Prisons
Bedford Gaol Prisoner Kitty Shepherd 1807
Transportation
Serial Thief – George Watts 1853
Directories
Universal British 1793-1798 Pigots 1830 Post Office 1855 Kellys 1867 Kellys 1915 Swindon & District 1928
Education
Emigration and Migration
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 Australia on an assisted emigration programme between April 1840 and April 1841
Employment and Business
Agricultural Employment
Stuart Tradesmen 1612-1620 Gamekeepers Certificates 1807
Apprentices
Daniel Billingslee 1710 Joseph Billingsley 1718 William Bolter 1712
Wiltshire Society Apprentices
Medical
Medical License Extract for Matthew Hungerford 1670
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Accidents
Horsedrawn Bus Overturns in Pond 1905
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Census Returns Transcripts
Deaths
Death Certificate of Ruth Middleton 1883
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Poll Book 1865
Council Elections
County Council Election Notice 1925
Family Notices
Sport
Taxes
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Charity
Weekly Donations to Savernake Hospital
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
William, Earl of Pembroke 1630 Nicholas Hyde 1633
Parishioners Wills
Richard Inckpen Proved 1590/91 Thomas Keemer Proved 1618 James Wentworth proved 1841
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Servicemen and Women
Servicemen & Families with 1st Wilts Regt. in South Africa 1911
WWI
Casualties
War Memorials
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Roll of Honour Plaque (includes those who served) Little Bedwyn & Chisbury Roll of Honour Plaque 1914-1918
Chisbury
Websites
Emigration and Migration
Assisted Emigration
Samuel & Elizabeth Brooks 1854
Employment and Business
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Elections and Polls
Family Notices
Parish Notables
Death Warrant of Colonel Hugh Grove 1655
Probate
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorial & Military Gallery
Roll of Honour Little Bedwyn and Chisbury Roll of Honour 1914-1918
