Sutton Mandeville

The OPC is Eric Read

Sutton Mandeville Photo Gallery

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Ebbesbourne Wake – Fifield Bavant – Fovant – Swallowcliffe – Teffont Evias – Tisbury

Websites of Interest

Sutton Mandeville Parish Council – Website for Parish Council

The Parish Church of All Saints

All Saints Gallery          All Saints Interior Gallery          All Saints Churchyard Gallery

Church Benefactors

Mary Bracher Benefaction Plaque 1848

Church Building

Proposed Changes to Church Building 1861-1863          Re-opening of All Saints Church 1862          

Church Census

Sutton Mandefeild Protestation Return 1641-1642

Church Funding and Financial Matters

Petition for Abolition of Church Rates 1860           Villagers Launch Church Appeal 2003

Church History

Church Brief History

Church Interior

Interior Wall Memorial Inscriptions

Church News

Church Matters 1900-1999

Church Officials

Appointments

Church Appointments 1840-1842

Rectors

Rectors List 1130-1984

Synodsmen

Meeting for Election of Synodsmen 1871

Vicars

Lunacy of Rev. Thomas Talbot 1826

Church Procedures

Anti-ritual Meeting in Salisbury 1867

Church Supported Charities

Salisbury Infirmary Diocese of Salisbury Parish Donations 1858

Church Windows

Altar Window by John Wyndham, Rector 1876          Sarah & Nora Walter Window 1890 & 1935

Churchyard

Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions

Parish Register Transcripts

Baptisms

1650-1699          1700-1749          1750-1799          1800-1849          

Marriages

1650-1799          1800-1899          1900-1949

Burials

1650-1699          1700-1749          1750-1799          1800-1849          

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms 1654-1974
Marriages 1654-1995
Burials 1654-1984

Parish History

Sutton Mandeville lies in the south west of the Wiltshire county. It is approximately 11 miles west of Salisbury, off the A30.

Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Civil Registration

1837 – April 1936 Tisbury Registration District
April 1936 – January 1978 Mere Registration District
January 1978 – present Salisbury Registration District

Population

Population Figures 1801-2001

Buildings and Land

Domesday Book Entry          UK Land Tax Redemption 1798           Repairs to Bridges 1844-1872          Foot and Mouth Disease 1872 & 1924          A Solar Phenomenon 1902

Ancient Monuments

Sutton Mandeville has 4 Ancient Monuments listed. Ancient Monuments List

Land Surveys

1936

Listed Buildings

Grade I – Buildings of outstanding architectural or historic interest

No entries listed for this category within the parish

Grade II* – Buildings are particularly important and of more than special interest

Weather

A memorandum recorded in the baptism parish register stated that on the 5th May 1740 there was a great snowfall

All Saints Church

All Saints Church Cemetery Gallery

Grade II – Buildings are nationally important and of special interest

Properties For Auction, Let or Sale

Public Houses

Bell Inn or Cribbage Hut

Crime and Legal Matters

Bastardy

Bastardy Examinations 1850-1855          Bastardy Examinations 1850-1860

Infamous Criminals

Rev. Thomas Rosewell (1630 – 1692)

Rev. Thomas Rosewell was Rector of Sutton Mandeville from 1657 – 1662 but ejected by the Uniformity Act.   His fame rests on his sensational trial for High Treason in 1684, after a sermon that he peached on 14th September, 1684.   He was convicted by “Hanging” Judge Jefferies but later pardoned by the King.

James Mitchell – Murderer

James Mitchell was born at Sutton Mandeville & worked as a Labourer for Mr. Edward Bracher, also of Sutton Mandeville.  James Mitchell murdered Miss Mary Welchman, in London, in 1814 and was apprehended at Sutton Mandeville a short while later by Mr. Bracher who had read about the murder in the newspaper.  James Mitchell was charged and arraigned at the Old Bailey where he was convicted.  He was executed, by hanging, on 19th September, 1814 at Newgate.

James Mitchell Murderer 1814           Old Bailey Proceedings          Newspaper Articles

Transportation to Australia

3 men are listed from the parish as transportees they are:-

Herbert Johnson in 1850 for 10 years          William Harding in 1844 for 10 years           William Russell (year not found) for 4 years

Directories

Education

Emigration and Migration

Strays Index

Assisted Emigration

Amelia Batten (nee Payne) 1854                Job Payne 1854

Overseas Travel

Richard Biddicombe 1638 

Employment and Business

UK Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices 1700-1811          British Postal Appointments 1737-1969          Game Lists & Gamekeepers 1801-1859          Game Licenses 1834

Miscellaneous Documents

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

Primitive Methodists Camp Meeting 1866

People and Parish Notables

Accidents

Accident Involving Mr. Stone 1851          Accident Involving Henry Yates 1869                  Accident Involving George Bracher 1870

Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies

Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871         Romsey Reading Society – Miss Marsh (Singer) 1871

Bankruptcy

Reports

Charles Hibberd 1867           Henry Marsh 1880

Insolvent Debtor William O’Brien 1811          Bankruptcy of Hibberd & Marsh 1867 & 1880         Receiver Appointed for Richard Green 1939

Census Returns Transcripts

1841           1851           1861           1871           1881           1891           1901          1911

Elections and Polls

Poll of Freeholders 1772          Poll Book 1818            Voters List 1832          Poll Book 1865          MP Nominations 2015

Entertainment

Salisbury Christmas Show 1869

Family Notices

1758-1849          1850-1899           1900-1949

General Items

South & West Wilts Puppy Show 1889          E. Martin is Missing 1896           Life Barony Awarded to Baron Brook 2001

Inquest Reports

Numbers of Inquests Held Over Last 4 Years 1840

Sport

Skittles Competition 1842          Stag Hunt 1853 & 1871

Taxes

Tax List 1332

Weddings

Marriage Festivities of William Newman & Francis Wyndham 1870

Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse

Sutton Mandeville came under the jurisdiction of Tisbury Union. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians, usually one representing a constituent parish. Their roles were to administered poor relief such as money, food and clothing as part of the Poor Law system. Usually Churchwardens or Landowners were selected for these roles.

Charity

Donations for Floods at Shrewton 1841                  Contributions to Salisbury Infirmary 1851

Probate

National Probate Index 1838-1966

Parishioners Wills

Will of Samuel Bracher 1830 Gallery

Samuel Bracher Written 1830          Emma Hibberd Proved 1849

War, Conflict and Military Matters

War Memorials & Military Gallery

Royal Navy Registers of Seamen’s Services 1873-1896           Records of Armed Forces – Army 1890-1945          Sale of Royal Field Artillery Camp 1920

WWI

Casualty Biographies of WWI

Summary Table of Casualties of WWI

Biographies of Men Who Served and Survived

Frederick Mullins          Frederick Edward Spencer

Sutton Mandeville Army Camp

At the outbreak of WWI there became an urgent need to accommodate the increasing requirements for Military Training & Transit camps. Towards the end of 1914, John Combes, of East Farm at Fovant, was informed that part of his land was to be requisitioned for one such camp. Subsequently, land to the east and west of his farm was also commandeered and an area stretching from Compton Chamberlayne to Sutton Mandeville became one vast Military Camp. A single track railway connected the camps to the main line. It is believed that Sutton Mandeville had 3 Camps during WWI.

Regiments Known to have been based at Sutton Mandeville during WWI include:- 3/7th (City of London) London Regiment  –  Devonshire Regiment – 53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion – basic recruit training unit (part of 8th Reserve Brigade)  –  37th Battalion Australian Imperial Force

Map showing Army Camps that stretched from Sutton Mandeville through Fovant & to Compton Chamberlayne

Sutton Mandeville Military Badges

During WWI, whilst stationed in the Army Camps located on Salisbury Plain, soldiers from the British, New Zealand and Australian Forces cut their Regimental Badges into the chalk hills above their camps. Fovant is well known for its Regimental Badges. Two military badges were cut into Sutton Down by the Royal Warwickshire Regiment & the 7th (City of London) Battalion of the London Regiment (known as the “Shiny Seventh”).

WWII

Church WWII Roll of Honour Plaque          Fighting Sullivans 1942

Casualty Biographies

Summary Table of Casualties of WWII

Edgar Mullins          Ronald Mullins          Kenneth Taylor

War Graves of WWI & WWII

Sutton Mandeville War Graves Gallery

Sutton Mandeville has three War Graves – 2 from WWI both located in Churchyard and 1 from WWII which is located in the cemetery.

George Joseph Barnett/Barrett WWI          Richard Thomas Perks WWI          John Lamb WWII