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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Berwick Bassett – Broad Hinton – Fyfield – Marlborough St. Mary The Virgin – Marlborough Sts. Peter & Paul – Mildenhall – Ogbourne St. Andrew – Overton – Savernake – Wilcot – Winterbourne Bassett
Websites of Interest
Action for the River Kennet (ARK) – Manton River habitat restoration.
St. George Preshute – Marlborough Anglian Team.
The Parish Church of St. George
St. George’s Gallery St. George’s Interior Gallery St. George’s Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Parish Register Transcripts
Interesting Parish Register Entries 1650-1654
Marriages
1606-1649 1650-1699 1700-1749 1750-1799 1800-1849
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1606-1927
Marriages 1606-1952
Baptisms 1606-1894
The early registers may contain entries for Savernake and the Forest.
Recommended Reading
Parish Church of St. George at Preshute by R. H. Lane & E. G. H. Kempson 1959, reprinted 2010. This is a 20 page booklet on the church and architecture of St. George and the history of the parish. Available from the Church.
Parish History
Just above Marlborough College the old mother church of Preshute stands beside the Kennet. Within the parish the Conqueror founded his great castle of Marlborough; the church holds as its chief treasure what is believed to be the castle font, a squat column of black Tournai marble. Legend has it that King John was baptised at this font.
The Parish includes the village of Manton and the hamlet of Clatford
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Marlborough Registration District
Buildings and Land
Owners of Land 1873 Sale of Savernake Estate 1929
Crime and Legal Matters
Bastardy
General Crime Items
Prisons and Prisoners
Convicts sent to Prison Hulks 1823-1842
Theft
Robbery from School Pupils 1853 Four Boys Steal from Grammar School Pupils 1860
Directories
Kellys 1915 Swindon & District 1928
Education
Emigration and Migration
To Australia
Romance Aboard Ship (Smith Family)
Employment and Business
Trades Unions
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843 County Council Election Notice 1925
General Items
Tragedies at Preshute 1796-1812
Family Notices
Inquest Reports
Wedding Reports
Marlborough Bride Married at Preshute November 1949
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Probate
Parishioners Wills
Geoffray Daniell proved 1561 Mary Chapman Proved 1570
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Naval Attestation – John Hillier 1831 Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 War Memorial 1914-1919
Clatford
Employment and Business
British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Census Returns Transcripts
Manton
Post Office, High Street, Manton
Buildings and Land
Public Houses
The Oddfellows
Crime and Legal Matters
Bastardy
Bastardy Examination Goodship v Scott 1853
Employment and Business
Ledley’s of Marlborough Newspaper Advertisment 1956
People and Parish Notables
Manton People Gallery
Census Returns Transcripts
Manton & Clatford
Personal Research Items
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 references to Quaker entries may be found from across the county.
