OPC Vacancy
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Great Bedwyn – Ham – Hungerford – Little Bedwyn
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
St Michael’s Gallery St. Michael’s Interior Gallery St. Michael’s Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
News
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1677-1993
Marriages 1694-1996
Burials 1693-1862
Parish History
Old English, scealde burna = shallow stream) is shut in by hills and lies on the Berkshire border. The church (St. Michael) of Norman origin , has some Early English work and a modern South aisle. A monument dated 1562 is said to commemorate Sir Francis Choke.
Shalbourne is now under the jurisdiction of Berkshire and includes Newtown
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1937 Hungerford Registration District
April 1937 – Present Marlborough Registration District
Buildings and Land
Landowners
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1809
Property Sales
Estate of Thomas Gill 1778 Property Sale by Auction 1779 Sale of Savernake Estate 1929
Railway
Great Western
Railway Accommodation on the Berks and Hants Line 1890
Crime and Legal Matters
Animal Related Crime
Creditors & Debtors
Dividends to be Made to Creditors 1700-1899
Crime Reports
Proceedings in Chancery Elizabeth I Era (1558-1603)
Directories
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Inventors and Patents
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832
MP Nominations
Family Notices
Family Pedigrees
Descendants of Thomas Strange c1730
Parish Notables
Jethro Tull, Agricultural Writer and Inventor
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.
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Probate
Probate & Estate Notices
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
