OPC Vacancy

Slaughterford Photo Gallery

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Biddestone – Castle Combe – Colerne – North Wraxall – Yatton Keynell

Websites of Interest

Slaughterford Village – History, news and Information.

The Parish Church of St. Nicholas

(Old English. slah-porn=slow thorn) has a small church (St. Nicholas) which, after being in ruins for 200 years, was rebuilt in 1873. (The Little Guides 1949, Methuen)

St. Nicholas  Gallery          St. Nicholas Interior Gallery          St. Nicholas Churchyard Gallery

Parish Register Transcripts

Baptisms
Marriages

1621-1849

Burials

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms 1813-1992
Marriages 1814-1989
Burials 1813-1991
BTs 1838-1879 are held at Bristol Record Office

Parish History

Civil Registration

1837 – Present Chippenham Registration District

Buildings and Land

Owners of Land 1873

Maps

Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814

Crime and Legal Matters

Assizes Court Presentation

William Webbe 1603

Crime Reports

1800-1849         

Prisons & Prisoners

Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879

Directories

Swindon & District 1928

Education

Emigration and Migration

Strays Index 

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.

Richard Baldwin 1759

Miscellaneous Documents

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

People and Parish Notables

People Gallery

Retirement of Mr. Bert Tuck 1941          Funeral Report of Mr. Sidney Tuck 1944

Census Returns Transcripts

1841         1851          1861          1871          1881          1891          1901          1911

Elections

Voters List 1832          Voters Lists Revisions 1843

Family Notices

1850-1899

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

Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held

Richard Westfield 1625

War, Conflict and Military Matters

Muster Roll 1539          British Red Cross/VAD Volunteer Rose Hillier 1916-1919          Letter of Thanks to Mrs. R. Tuck 1939

WWII

Home Guard

Home Guards 1940-1944          Home Guard Awards 1944