OPC Vacancy

Stockton Photo Gallery

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Chilmark – Codford St. Mary – Fisherton Delamere – Fonthill Bishop – Sherrington

Websites

See Around Britain – Photographs

The Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

St. John’s church is set back behind cottages in a little close of its own, which is private property and parking outside the church is not permitted. Park in the lane near the close.

Please do not add wall memorial images to the Interior Galley, 2023.

St. John’s Gallery          St. John’s Interior Gallery          St. John’s Churchyard Gallery

Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions          Interior Wall Memorial Inscriptions 

Church Supported Charities and Funding

Salisbury Infirmary 1858

Incumbents

Short Biography of Revd. Henry Good           List of Rectors 1307-2011

Parish Register Transcripts

Interesting Parish Register Entries          Baptisms, Burials & Marriage Totals 1700-1810 (Summations only)                 

Baptisms

1750-1799          1800-1849

Marriages

1590-1812 

Burials

1750-1799          1800-1849

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms 1589-1945
Marriages 1590-1976
Burials 1589-1992

Miscellaneous Church Records

Protestation Return 1641-1642

Parish History

History of Stockton as displayed in the Carriers

Civil Registration

1837 – Present Warminster Registration District

Buildings and Land

Landowners

Owners of Land 1873

Public Houses

Carriers off the A36.

This is an old building that was once part of the Bishop of Coventry’s estate.

Taxes

Appointment of Select Commissioners for Land and Assessed Taxes 1842

Crime and Legal Matters

Directories

Education

Emigration and Migration

Strays Index

Employment and Business

Agricultural and Land

Game Licences 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.

Jonathan Barnes 1719           Thomas Bartlett 1724

Communications

British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969

Exhibitions

Warminster Industrial Exhibition 1869

Inventors and Patents

Inventors 1627-1852

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

People and Parish Notables

Census Returns Transcripts

In 1811 the census returned 224 persons          

1851          1881

Census Totals 1700-1810 (Summations only)

 Elections, Polls, & Voters Lists

Poll of Freeholders 1772          Poll Book 1818          Voters List 1832          Poll Book 1865          Voting Revisions Barristers Court 1890        MP Nominations 2015

Family Notices

1800-1849

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.

Sport

Boxing

Lacock v. Goodfellow 1825

Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse

Probate

Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held

John Toppe 1633          John Topp 1640

War, Conflict and Military Matters

War Memorials & Military Gallery

Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918         Stockton War Memorial

WWI Casualties

Arthur John Johnson 1915          Henry George Penny 1915            Willie Tuffin 1914

Bapton

Employment & Business

Agriculture

Bapton Shorthorns for Sale 1873          Famous Bapton Shorthorns Sold 1893          Bapton Shorthorns for Sale 1897          Famous Bapton Shorthorn Herd to Be Sold 1924