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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Bishopstrow – Brixton Deverill – Heytesbury – Hill Deverill – Longbridge Deverill – Norton Bavant – Warminster
Websites of Interest
Marilyn Prime – Sutton Veny Records.
Sutton Veny Village Website – Australian 1st World War
Parish Churches of St. Leonard and St. John the Evangelist
Codford is served by two Anglican churches St. Mary and St. Peter which also serves the Ashton Gifford Community. see individual village tabs below for details
Parish History
Sutton Veny is a small village in the Wylye Valley in the south of Wiltshire, about 3 miles South-east of Warminster and almost 20 miles to Salisbury in the south-east. The village name is derived from “Sutton” which means South farmstead in relation to Norton Bavant, which is about one mile to the North. “Veny” could be either a French family name – or a description of the village’s marshy situation – i.e. “in the fens”. There are two Anglican Churches in the village – the old church of St. Leonard’s which is in the oldest part of the village that was known as Great Sutton and the ‘new’ Church of St. John the Evangelist. There is an Australian War Commission Cemetery at St. John’s where 127 Australian Members of Military Forces are buried as a result of the 1918 flue epidemic.
St. John’s is situated beside to the present primary school. There has been a school in Sutton Veny since the 1850’s. The original school building is now a private house just off Duck Lane. By 1249, Sutton Veny comprised two settlements – Great Sutton and Little Sutton. The population of the parish in 1831 was 848 and 568 in 1951.
Population Figures 1801-2021 Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary Of England 1845
The Parish Church of St. Leonard
St. Leonard
The church was abandoned in the 1860s after the construction of a new church, St John the Evangelist, which opened in 1868. The decision to build a new church was made due to subsidence caused by the low-lying damp ground. The chancel of St Leonard’s is the only part of the church that remains in usable condition, and was used as a mortuary chapel.
It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant on 28 May 1970, and was vested in the Trust on 27 October 1971.
St. Leonard’s Gallery St. Leonard’s Interior Gallery St. Leonard’s Interior Wall Memorials Gallery St. Leonard’s Churchyard Gallery
St. Leonard’s Churchyard Burial Plot folder Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Church History Benefaction Board Church Enlargement Benefaction Board 1820 Interior Wall Memorial Inscriptions
Church Supported Charities
Salisbury Infirmary Diocese of Salisbury Parish Donations 1858
Parish Register Transcripts
Interesting Parish Register Entries
Baptisms
1653-1699 1700-1749 1750-1799 1800-1824 1825-1849 1850-1899 (Incomplete)
Banns
Marriages
1654-1749 1750-1799 1850-1899 1900-1950 1951-1983
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1571-1972
Marriages 1654-2005
Burials 1654-1987
For More Parish Registers, Census and Poor Law information, visit my website Marilyn Prime.
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Warminster Registration District
The Parish Church of St. John The Evangelist
St. John
John’s was laid in 1866 and the church was dedicated two years later by the Bishop of Sodor and Man. It is an impressive building in an Early English style by J.L. Pearson, built at the expense of the Everett family as a memorial to Joseph Everett of Greenhill who died in 1865.
St. John’s Gallery St. John’s Interior Gallery St. John’s Churchyard Gallery St. Johns Churchyard (Military) Gallery
British Servicemen & Women Burials Gallery Australian Soldiers War Graves Gallery Australian Nursing Services War Grave Gallery Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918
British Servicemen & Women Memorial Inscriptions Australian Soldiers Memorial Inscriptions Australian Nursing Memorial Inscriptions Signals in Action
Australian Soldiers Stationed in Sutton Veny
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions Church History Choral Festival 1871 Rectors List Churches Conservation Trust Interior Wall Memorials
Church Memorials & Window Dedications
Please note that details of Military and War Memorial Plaques will be found in the War, Conflict and Military Matters Section
| D. G. Stephen Neale (Window) | William & Mary Anne Parham (Window) | Edmund Sharpe 1852 (Window) |
| Ann Grace Fowle 1667 (Window) | Richard Southby Thring 1875 (Window) | Richard & Harriet Elling 1878 (Window) |
| Charles Pell Heigham 1878 (Window) | Mary Millet 1878 (Window) | Cyril Minshull Thornton 1908 (Plaque) |
| Leonard William Dawson Everett 1911 (Plaque) | Richard Bower Memorial 1911 (Plaque) | Margaret Katharine Alexander 1929 (Plaque) |
Parish Register Transcripts
See under St. Leonards
Buildings and Land
Domesday Book Entry Transfer of Land Tenure 1648 Dwelling House and Malt House to Let 1767 Appointment of Select Commissioners for Land and Assessed Taxes 1842 Appointment of Select Commissioners for Land and Assessed Taxes 1842 Owners of Land 1873
Property for Auction, Sale or Let
| Barters Forge Sold 2014 | Halse House Sold 2014 | 7 High Street For Sale 2014 | Manor House Sold 2014 |
| Rookery Cottage For Sale 2014 |
Crime and Legal Matters
Child Abuse
Child Neglect 1914
Court Cases
Ancient Monuments
Sutton Veny has 12 Ancient Monuments – 4 of which were listed on the “At Risk” list for 2011 Ancient Monuments
Listed Buildings
Grade I – Buildings of outstanding architectural or historic interest
St. John the Evangelist Church
Grade II* – Buildings are particularly important and of more than special interest
Old Manor House
Grade II – Buildings and Monuments are nationally important and of special interest
| Aisled Barn at Greenhill Farm | Ashbys | Church of St. Leonard |
| Coach House at Ashbys | Dew Monument – Churchyard of St. Leonard | Dovecote at Ashbys |
| 68 Duck Street | Exton Monument – Churchyard of St. Leonard | Glebe Farmhouse |
| Gosney & Dutch Monument in Churchyard of St. Leonard | Granary & Stable at Ashbys | Greenhill Farm |
| 8 High Street | Huntsman Lodge | Job’s Mill |
| K6 Telephone Kiosk | Knapp with Stables, Walls etc. | Little Newnham |
| Lodge to Sutton Veny House | Long & Dew Monuments – Churchyard of St. Leonard | Manymans Mead |
| Milepost opposite School | Milestone Cottage | Milestone to rear of Milestone Cottage |
| Milestone to rear of Milestone Cottage | North Lodge | Old House |
| Polebridge | Sutton Parva House | Sutton Veny House |
| Sutton Veny Primary School | Three Long Monuments – Churchyard of St. Leonard (10-14 metres) | Three Long Monuments – Churchyard of St. Leonard (24 Metres) |
| Two Hinton Monuments – Churchyard of St. Leonard | Whatley Monument – Churchyard of St. Leonard |
Public Houses
Woolpack Inn
Woolpack Inn 2009
Crime and Legal Matters
Child Abuse
Court Cases
Crime Reports
Poaching
Directories
| Post Office 1849 | Post Office 1855 | Post Office 1859 | Harrods 1865 | Kellys 1867 | Post Office 1875 |
| Kellys 1880 | Kellys 1889 | Kellys 1895 | Kellys 1898 | Kellys 1903 | Kellys 1907 |
| Kellys 1911 | Kellys 1915 | Kellys 1920 | Kellys 1927 | Kellys 1939 |
Education
School Masters 1674-1721 Plans for School Revamp 2007 School Bell 2007-2009
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Agriculture and Land
Gamekeepers Certificates 1807 Shepherd’s Prizes 1886
Apprentices
UK Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices 1756-1804
Articles of Clerkship
Articles of Clerkship were contracts between an apprentice clerk & an attorney who agreed to train the clerk to become an attorney or solicitor.
Samuel Walter Long 1810 John Tivitoe Thring 1806 William Dugdale Thring 1835 William Dugdale Thring 1838
Brewing
Wiltshire Brewed Beers at the Hyde Tavern Festival, Winchester 2016
Community Services
Police
Exhibitions
Warminster Industrial Exhibition 1869
Mariners
Master & Mates Certificates
Albert Henry Parham 1860-1867 Arthur Lauriston Powell 1879-1885
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Independent Chapel
History & Membership 1783-1863
People and Parish Notables
| Creditors & Bankrupts 1750-1799 | UK Death Duty Registers 1796-1811 | Family Notices |
| Wedding Report of Emma Everett to Rev. Henry Ravenhill 1866 | Life Events from Warminster Parish Magazine 1901 | |
| Life Events from Warminster Parish Magazine 1902 | Death & Funeral Report of Richard Bower 1911 | Funeral Report of Robert Elling 1916 |
| Funeral Report of Mary Everett 1920 | George Musselwite – Home after 46 Years on a Short Walk 1926 | Wedding Report – Goodall & Moore 1944 |
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Census Return Transcripts
The 1821 and 1831 Census lists heads of households and the number of males and females in residence only
Electoral Registers & Poll Books
| Poll of Freeholders 1772 | Poll of Freeholder 1772 (Great Sutton) | Poll of Freeholders 1772 (Little Sutton) | Poll Book 1818 |
| Poll Book 1865 | Voting Revisions Barristers Court 1890 | MP Nominations 2015 |
Family Notices
Inquest Reports
| Joseph Barter 1884 | Richard Bower 1911 | Isaac Everley 1846 | John Hinton 1886 |
| George Shergold 1913 | Stephen Whatley 1905 |
Obituaries
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Wiltshire Removal Orders 1670-1890 Extracts from the Overseers Accounts Books 1802-1835 Parishioners receiving fortnightly Relief 1817 Parish Relief Payments 1814-1815
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966 Probate Index at WSHC 1542-1881
Inquisitions Post Mortem
Parishioners Wills
| William Diet Proved 1590 | Ann Randall Proved 1735/36 | Richard Hawkins Proved 1760 |
| Mary Bayly Thring Proved 1825 | William Francis Long Proved 1831 |
War, Conflict and Military Matters
Military Camps Gallery War Graves Gallery
Servicemen & Women
WWI
British Red Cross/VAD Volunteers
Dora Hancock 1915-1919 Edith Mary Lett 1917-1918
Casualties Died in Sutton Veny Camp buried in other parishes
Greenhill House During WWI
Military Camps
St. John Churchyard Military Burials of WWI
War Memorials & Books of Remembrance
| Records of Armed Forces – Army 1792 | Chelsea Pensioner – John Earle 1816 | Chelsea Pensioner – James Abbott 1817 |
| Royal Navy Register of Seamen’s Services 1878-1897 | Alexander Family Plaque in St. John’s Church 1883-1952 | Colonel Alan Hinings Plaque in St. John’s 1998 |
| Hunt for Wartime Clues 2012 | Australia’s Fallen Remembered in an English Country Churchyard 2014 | New Visitor Information Panel for War Graves 2014 |
| Abbreviations used in Australian Service Records | Australian Recruitment Posters | Disposal Order of Medals of Australian Casualties |
| Headstone Costs of Australian Forces | Imperial War Graves Commission Pamphlet on Cemetery & Memorial Registers | Influenza Epidemic |
| Medical Classifications for Wounded & Sick Australian Soldiers | No photographs of Permanent A. I. F Headstones | Photographs of Temporary Memorials of Australian Casualties |
| Church Roll of Honour 1914-1919 | Inquest Report on William Shannon 1915 | Recruitment Posters WWI |
| Inquest Report on Arthur Bosanquet 1918 | Australian Prime Minister Addresses Troops 1919 | Australian Sick 1919 |
| Australian Troops Going Home 1919 | Australians Homeward 1919 | Discontent Among Soldiers 1919 |
| Letters to Families of Australian Casualties 1920 | Remembered in England 1920 | Australian Burials Abroad 1921 |
Casualties of WWI
| Sidney Arthur Hinton 1914 | Robert Alexander Colvin 1915 | Harold Charles Cooper 1915 |
| Frederick Stanley Doughty 1915 | Ernest James Hibberd 1916 | George Nelson Cooper 1917 |
| Walter Crouch 1917 | Sidney Charles Everett 1917 | Herbert Harold Hooker 1917 |
| Frank Snelgrove 1917 | Thomas Webb 1917 | Harry Barter 1918 |
| Reginald Alfred Haines 1918 | Hector Thomas Stewart Hicks 1918 | Arthur Charles Pond 1918 |
British Burials
| Thomas Brown 1915 | Joseph Clements 1915 | Frederick Hand 1915 |
| Ronald Thackell Wall 1915 | Katie Bolger 1916 | Reuben Bygrave 1916 |
| R. C. Cooper 1916 | William Edward Hemmings 1916 | John Frederick Lacey 1916 |
| J. Merriner 1916 | Albert Edward Milham 1916 | Arthur Francis Monnoyer 1916 |
| Robert Ernest Reid 1916 | Turner Swallow 1916 | A. Wilson 1916 |
| William Hall 1917 | H. J. James 1917 | W. Robinson 1917 |
| Leonard George Scudamore 1917 | S. G. Snell 1917 | Wilmer Frederick Hunt Barrett 1918 |
| John Charles Stuart 1918 | Harry Bronard Ward 1918 | F. Allen 1919 |
| F. H. Lever 1919 |
St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Sutton Veny contains 168 WWI Burials, 167 of them in a plot at the north west corner of the church. 143 of these WWI burials are Australians. There is only one WWII burial in the Churchyard (see WWII heading). The 26th Division was concentrated at Sutton Veny in April, 1915 and No. 1 Australian Command was in Sutton Veny from the end of 1916 to October, 1919. There was also a hutted Military Hospital of more than 1,200 beds at Sutton Veny for much of the First World War and the No. 1 Australian General Hospital was relocated at Sutton Veny from Rouen, France in January, 1919.
Nursing Sisters Monumental Inscriptions Summary Table Details of Nursing Sisters
WWI Australian Command Hospital
Church Australian Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Summary Table Details of Australian Servicemen
Australian Burials
| Alfred James Fordham 1918 | ||
| William Charles Cerini 1916 | Albert Ernest Hodges 1916 | Albert James Anderson aka Hegarty 1917 |
| Alfred Atkins 1917 | Victor Best 1917 | Francis Alcide Adrian Bonnefin 1917 |
| Harry James Gordon Boon 1917 | Arthur Edward Carson 1917 | Joseph Harold Durkin 1917 |
| Edward Joseph Laracy 1917 | Richard Paul Mitchell aka Arthur Harold Jones 1917 | Alfred Harold Ostrom 1917 |
| James Richard Owens 1917 | William Joseph Sims 1917 | Ezekiel James Smiley 1917 |
| Arthur Leslie Thomas Smith 1917 | Frederick Joseph White 1917 | William Thomas Andrews 1918 |
| Andrew Gerald Balding 1918 | George Henry Bantick 1918 | Jack Baxter 1918 |
| Norman Francis Henry Beggs 1918 | Alick Berry 1918 | Albert James Borgmeyer 1918 |
| John Bryans 1918 | John Leslie Cameron 1918 | Robert John Cameron 1918 |
| William Hardacre Carey 1918 | Francis Joseph Collis 1918 | Victor Harold Conley 1918 |
| George Sandford Cox 1918 | John Spencer Cussen 1918 | Robert Henry Darker 1918 |
| Patrick Degidan 1918 | Daniel David Donnelly 1918 | Charles James Evans 1918 |
| Patrick James Flakelar 1918 | George Henry Fletcher 1918 | Oscar William Flodin 1918 |
| Archibald Alexander Forsyth 1918 | Wyndham Jones Griffiths 1918 | |
| Ernest Charles Henry 1918 | Arthur Thomas Jacobs 1918 | Albury Fullerton Jones 1918 |
| Sidney Donald Kirk 1918 | William Kitchin 1918 | William James Lane 1918 |
| Henry Lewis 1918 | Charles Edward Lilley 1918 | Denis George Maloney 1918 |
| Alick Raymond Matthews 1918 | John Law McLuckie 1918 | Angus Cameron McPherson 1918 |
| Cecil John McPherson 1918 | Herbert Alfred Meacham 1918 | Thomas Frederick Morris 1918 |
| Thomas Nathaniel Niven 1918 | Herbert Garonne Nixon 1918 | Frederick Neil Olsson 1918 |
| John Page, MM 1918 | Robert Spencer Parker 1918 | Ernest Alexander Paterson 1918 |
| Norman George Peut 1918 | Charles Horace Pittard 1918 | Harold Alexander Plummer 1918 |
| James Podmore 1918 | Edward Rose 1918 | Arthur Ernest Proud 1918 |
| George Robinson 1918 | Cyril Henry Robert Rosenthal 1918 | Cecil Henry Rosevear 1918 |
| William Edmund Sager 1918 | William Harold Sampson 1918 | Roland Henry Simpson 1918 |
| Edward Scott-Millar aka McQuake Millar 1918 | James Willis Smith 1918 | John Jacob Stoops 1918 |
| Bedwell William Surman 1918 | William Robert Syle 1918 | George Taylor aka Thomas Sabien Burgess 1918 |
| Aubrey Leslie Tubb 1918 | Charles Jakeman Vanderwolf 1918 | William Bertram Wakefield 1918 |
| Edward Walker 1918 | Jean Miles Walker, RRC. 1918 | Frank Watts 1918 |
| George Webber, MM 1918 | Ernest Wickham Willows 1918 | Russell Gordon Witts 1918 |
| Alfred John Yeark 1918 | David Cairns Young 1918 | Eric Gordon Arentz 1919 |
| Charles Gerald Ashton 1919 | Thomas Francis Bailey 1919 | Herbert Roy Bakes 1919 |
| Albert James Braddish 1919 | David William Burgess 1919 | Murdock William Cameron 1919 |
| Sydney Cuthbert Collingwood 1919 | John William Cunningham 1919 | Kenneth Grant Drake 1919 |
| Edward Eaton 1919 | William Harold Ellery 1919 | Gordon Christopher Gardner 1919 |
| Francis Henry Garrett 1919 | William James Grills 1919 | Archibald Haddow 1919 |
| George Hearn 1919 | Donald Cameron Higgins 1919 | Frank John Hill 1919 |
| Frank Pearce Yarrington Huet 1919 | Archibald Leonard Jago 1919 | Edward Stamford Jones 1919 |
| Archibald McKelvie 1919 | John William Laidlaw, DCM 1919 | Dudley Massey Lapish 1919 |
| George Richard Leach 1919 | Charles George Matthews 1919 | Joseph James McCurdy 1919 |
| Henry Edwin Walter Moore 1919 | Richard Lewis Morton 1919 | Robert Hampden Murray 1919 |
| Edward Mytton 1919 | Charles Owen 1919 | Arthur Leslie Parkes 1919 |
| Samuel Polkinghorne, MM 1919 | Robert Quick 1919 | William Norman Quihampton 1919 |
| Herbert Ryan 1919 | Thomas Ryan 1919 | Joseph Sampson 1919 |
| Alfred Edward Shepperd 1919 | Alfred John Skinner 1919 | Harold South 1919 |
| Frank Leslie Sowton 1919 | John William Thompson 1919 | Albert John Thomson 1919td> |
| John David Vincent 1919 | Fanny Isobel Catherine Tyson 1919 | Samuel George Widdows 1919 |
| Ernest Henry Wilkes 1919 | Harold Henry Worseldine 1919 |
Sutton Veny Camp
Poems & Songs No. 1 Australian General Hospital Some of the Boys 1915 Murder or Suicide? 1917 Camp Murder Hanging 1918
Letters Home to Australia
Pte. Charles Herbert Stewart 1917-1918 Pte. Hugh Ramsay Veitch 1917-1918 L/Cpl. John Robertson Hawke 1917-1919
WWII
Church Roll of Honour 1939-1945
Peter Graham & William Paul Hobbs Memorial in St. John’s WWII WWII Pillbox St. John Churchyard Burial – Violet Evelyn Morgan 1942
Casualties of WWII
| John Baskivell Hinton 1941 | Peter Graham Hobbs 1942 | Cyril Ernest Hudd 1942 |
| Ivan William Mitchell 1942 | Hubert Samuel Pickford 1942 | William Paul Hobbs 1943 |
| Frank Ivan Haskell 1944 |
Prisoners of War
Anzac Day Services
Anzac Day is one of Australia’s important national commemorative occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces (ANZAC – Australian & New Zealand Army Corps) during the First World War. On 25th April, 1915, Australian and New Zealand soldiers – ANZACS, formed part of the allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula, in order to open the Dardanelles to the allied Navies. At the end of 1915, the allied forces were evacuated. Both sides suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. Over 8,000 Australian soldiers were killed. News of the landing on Gallipoli and the events that followed had a profound impact on Australians & New Zealanders at home. The 25th of April soon became the day on which Australians remember the sacrifice of those who had died in the war. Anzac Day today, in Australia & New Zealand, is a national day of remembrance which commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who have served”. Anzac Day Services Gallery
| Anzac Day Remembered 1920 | Anzac Day 1930 | Anzac Day 1931 |
| Honouring Australian Casualties 1933 | Sympathetic Gesture 1933 | Anzac Day 1934 |
| Anzac Day in England 1951 | Overseas Anzac Ceremonies 1953 | Remembered 1953 |
| Village Remembers Anzacs 1957 | Pupils Pay Respects 2002 | Tributes to Anzac Soldiers 2004 |
| Special Anzac Day 2013 | Poignant Show of Respect for Fallen Heroes 2014 | Pupils Commemorate Centenary on Anzac Day 2015 |
War Memorial
The Sutton Veny War Memorial stands in the foreground of St. John’s Church. It was formerly dedicated on 15th February, 1920. The War Memorial contains the names of twenty two Men who died in both Wars – fifteen from WWI and seven from WWII. A Cross of Sacrifice was placed in the Churchyard in 1923 by the then named Imperial War Graves Commission (now CWGC) in memory of the many War Graves located in the Churchyard.
War Memorial Summary of Casualties Named on War Memorial WWI & WWII
