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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Beckington (SOM) – Bradford on Avon – Bratton – Dilton – Rode (SOM) – Steeple Ashton – Tellisford (SOM) – Trowbridge – Westbury – Wingfield – Woolverton (SOM)
Websites of Interest
Family Histories of North Bradley – Shared by Pete Beaven.
The Parish Church of St. Nicholas
North Bradley – St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas Gallery St. Nicholas Church Interior St.Nicholas Churchyard Gallery
St. Nicholas Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions St. Nicholas Churchyard – Burial Plot Details St. Nicholas Churchyard – Burial Plot Map
Incumbents List 1316-1880 Church Matters 1800-1849 Church Matters 1900-1999
Parish Register Transcripts
Marriages
Burials
1616-1649 1650-1699 1700-1749 1750-1799 1800-1824 1825-1849 (Incomplete)
Some of the early burials entries contain gaps due to the condition of the original registers.
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1646-1987
Marriages 1667-1994
Burials 1667-1945
Parish Registers in Wilts 1888
Parish History
The parish includes the tything of Southwick and the area of West Road/Rode which has since been transferred to the Somerset county jurisdiction
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Westbury Registration District
April 1936 – Present Warminster Registration District
Buildings and Land
Transfer of Land Tenure 1649 Owners of Land 1873
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811
Properties for Sale
Walter Long Estate for Sale 1911
Crime and Legal Matters
Bigamy
John Holloway Committed Bigamy 1891
Capital Punishment
Death Penalty for Sagrilegious Theft 1818
Civil Matters
Breach of Promise to Marry Pike v Gardener 1878
Courts
Crime Reports
Prisons and Prisoners
Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879
Swing Riots
Swing Riots of 1830-1831 – Commissioners Report 1834
Directories
Post Office 1855 Kellys 1889 Kellys 1915
Education
Emigration and Migration
Strays Index Emigration Home Contact Requested 1800 – Present
Employment and Business
Agriculture
Gamekeepers Certificates 1807 Gamekeepers Certificates 1834
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.
James Abethell 1713 James Batchelor 1758
Wiltshire Society
Community Services
Police
Metropolitan Police Pensions Record – John Archell 1848-1873
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Baptist Church
Baptist Chapel Gallery Baptist Chapelyard
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Post Election Meeting 1838 Voters Lists Revisions 1843 MP Nominations 2015
Personal Research Items
Tuck Family Research Marriage Extracts Tuck Family Research Burial Extracts – These items were 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 marriages and burials found across the county
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Workhouse Provisions & Clothing Tenders 1846 Poor Law Union Audit 1849
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
William Jones 1626 James, Earl of Marlborough 1633 Henry, Earl of Marlborough 1638
Parishioners Wills
Edward Jones Proved 1684 with Inventory James Jones Proved 1821
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Naval Attestation – James Alley 1814
WWI
Egg Collection for Wounded Servicemen 1914-1918
British Red Cross/VAD Volunteers
Amy Hobbs 1918-1919 Elsie Scott 1915-1919
Casualty Biographies
Connections to North Bradley
Centenary Commemorations
WWI Centenary Commemorations 2015
WWII
Casualties
Edgar William Ernest Gifford 1940
Funeral Reports
Tragic Death of Staff Sergeant Gifford 1940
General Military Items
War Memorials and Books of Remembrance
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918
Road/Rode
Village History
Road Hill is probably infamous as the location of the horrific murder of Francis Savile Kent in 1860. The murder was that of a small child of about 4 years old and the perpetrator of the crime in all probability was his half sister Constance Kent. The case gained much following in the media at the time and even Charles Dickens had his theories. The detective Jack Whicher brought in from Scotland Yard failed to gain a conviction against Constance although he was adamant it was Constance and probably her brother. The case was to be Whicher’s Waterloo and he fell from grace within the Scotland Yard regime. Some years later Whicher was vindicated in his Suspicions when Constance confessed her crime insisting she carried out the act alone and unbeknown to anyone else. She was imprisoned and on her release she went to Australia where her brother had made a name for himself in the natural history world. The case was made into a TV film based on the book of the same name “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher” by Kate Summerscale. For a more detailed account see the article under Crime and Legal Matters below
Buildings and Land
Red Lion Inn, Road, Sale at Auction 1846 Owners of Land 1873
Crime and Legal Matters
Murder
Rode Hill House Murder
Rode Hill House Murder Gallery
Kent Family Tree Constance Kent Story 1844-1944 Persons Closely Associated to the Murder 1860
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Apprentices
Jane Amills 1725 Emanuel Coomb 1720
Medical Matters
General Medical Council Registrations 1859-1959
People and Parish Notables
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Family Notices 1850-1899
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Charity
Donations to Royal United Hospital, Bath 1911
War, Conflict and Military Matters
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918
Southwick
Southwick St. Thomas
St. Thomas Church
St. Thomas Gallery St. Thomas Interior Gallery
Southwick History
Southwick is one of 6 parishes in the UK with this name. A postcard of the 6 parish churches including St. Thomas can be found in the Southwick photo gallery. The churches are St. Michael’s, Southwick, Sussex; St. Mary’s, Southwick, Northamptonshire; Southwick Church by Dumfries, Scotland; St. James-Without-the-Priory-Gate, Southwick, Hampshire; Holy Trinity, Southwick, Sunderland; plus of course St. Thomas, Southwick Wiltshire
Village Newsletters
Buildings and Land
Crime and Legal Matters
Crime Reports 1800-1899 Licensing Petty Sessions 1800-1899
Employment and Business
Community Services
Police
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Providence Baptist Chapel
People and Parish Notables
Elections and Polls
Inquest Reports
George Harper 1846 Rachel Matthews 1846
Entertainment
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
Parishioners Wills
Robert Jones, Snr. Proved 1718 with Inventory Stephen Jones Proved 1723 with Inventory William Jones Proved 1818
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
WWI
Casualties
Herbert Everett Culverhouse 1917 Edward Howard Pickard 1917
WWII
Casualties
Yarnbrook
Buildings and Land
Crime & Legal Matters
Court Cases
People and Parish Notables
Inquest Reports
Elizabeth Farr 1846 George Rose 1867
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
WWI
Casualties
Charles Wyndham Barnes 1918 Donald Robert Keates 1918 Percy Shrapnell 1918 Walter Frank Webb 1916
