OPC Vacancy
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Acton Turville (GLS) – Alderton – Great Badminton (GLS) – Hawkesbury (GLS) – Littleton Drew – Sherston Magna – Sopworth
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Ethelbert
St. Mary’s Gallery St. Mary’s Interior Gallery St. Mary’s Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Memorial Plaques
Parish Register Transcripts
Notes from the Registers 1599-1621
Marriages
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1573-1902
Marriages 1573-1991
Burials 1572-1987
BTs 1838-1860 are held at the Bristol Record Office
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Malmesbury Registration District
April 1936 – Present Chippenham Registration District
Buildings and Land
Landowners
Land Surveys
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814
Crime and Legal Matters
Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879 Crime Reports 1850-1899 Charles Neale Fools the Prison Doctors 1878
Directories
Kellys 1889 Kellys 1915 Swindon & District 1928 Taylors Telephone 1941
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.
Samuel Bell 1715 Gilbert Bowles 1715
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll Book 1705 Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843
MP Nominations
MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017
Inquests
Parish Notables
John Thaw, Actor died in the village in 2002 but was resident of Sherston Magna
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
Guardians
Election of Guardians 1837 Election of Guardians 1839 Election of Guardians 1844 Nomination of Guardians 1886
Tenders
Medical Services
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorial & Military Gallery
| Muster Roll 1539 | Chelsea Pensioners 1818-1828 | Roll of Honour Plaque 1914-1919 |
| Roll of Honour Plaque 1939-1945 | Village Hall – a Memorial to those who fought in WWI |
