OPC Vacancy
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Bulford – Durrington – Figheldean – Shipton Bellinger (HAM) – Tidworth (WIL & HAM)
Websites of Interest
St. Mary’s Church – Avon River Team
The Parish Church of St. Mary
St. Mary Gallery St. Mary Interior Gallery St. Mary Churchyard & Extension
Interesting Entries from the Parish Registers Milston and Breymaston Protestation Return 1641-1642 Milston Church Featured in the Illustrated London News 1844
Grants to Retiring Aged Parish Clerks 1864
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Marriages
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1540-1991
Marriages 1540-1997
Burials 1540-1992
Look ups of Parish Records and Bishops Transcripts are available for Baptisms and Burials for 1539 – 1837
Parish History
Milston is 3 miles north of Amesbury, one of a string of villages along the River Avon. The parish church of St Mary serves both Milston and Brigmerston. Lancelot Addison (1632-1703) was a Rector of Milston, later to become Dean of Lichfield and Archdeacon of Coventry. He was the father of Joseph Addison, born 1 May 1672 in Milston, the famous English dramatist.
Population Figures and Jurisdictions
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Amesbury Registration District
April 1936 – Present Salisbury Registration District
Buildings and Land
Appointment of Select Commissioners for Land and Assessed Taxes 1842
Land Surveys
Weather Phenomena
Crime and Legal Matters
Crime Reports
Directories
Post Office 1875 Kellys 1889 Kellys 1915
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Return Transcripts
Elections, Polls and Taxes
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Poll Book 1865 MP Nominations 2015
Parish Notables
Joseph Addison, Politician and Essayist – see Milston Church Item under parish church heading
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Amesbury Union Guardians Appointed 1835
Probate
War, Conflict and Military Matters
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Church War Memorial Transcript WWI Roll of Honour Plaque 1914-1918
Brigmerston
Employment
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.
