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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Biddestone – Castle Combe – Chippenham – Colerne – Kington St. Michael – Leigh Delamere – North Wraxall
Websites
Yatton Keynell Village – Website for history and information
The Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
St. Margaret’s Gallery St. Margaret’s Interior Gallery St. Margaret’s Churchyard Gallery
Church Matters
Church Officials
Church Services
Memorial Plaques and Windows
Parish Register Transcripts
Interesting Entries From the Parish Register 1655-1737
Marriages
Registers Held at WSHC
Baptisms 1653-1952
Marriages 1653-1921
Burials 1653-1921
BTs 1838-1860 are held at Bristol Record Office
Parish History
The village is sometimes known as Church Yatton
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Chippenham Registration District
Buildings and Land
Mortgage Indenture Wild & Bailey 1743 Property News 1800-1849 Sale of Property 1871 Owners of Land 1873 Sale of Property 1883
Land Surveys
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814
Public Houses
Bell Inn
Owners, Landlords & Tennant 1737-1989
Crime and Legal Matters
Court Claim
Court Claim of Millard v Prater 1888
Crime Reports
Theft
Directories
Kellys 1867 Swindon & District 1928
Education
Emigration and Migration
Australia
South
Strays
Employment and Business
Medical License for John Pegler 1768 Gamekeepers Certificates 1807
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Independent Chapel – Baptisms 1866-1874
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Agricultural Societies
Wiltshire Agricultural Show Prize Winners 1904
Bankruptcy
Census Returns Transcripts
1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Please note that there are no existing records of the 1841 census for this parish.
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843 MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017 Poll Book 1818
Family Notices
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
Pigeon Racing Annual Awards 1956
Taxes
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Charity & Fund Raising
Dance in Aid of Naval Comforts Fund 1940
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
Richard de Polhampton 1317 Josias Taylor 1633 Thomas Wilde 1642
Parishioners Wills
| Mary Mundee Written 1691 | Thomas Cullimore Proved 1762 | Benjamin Pidding Proved 1763 |
| Mary Pearse Proved 1832 | Ralph Skeate Proved 1844 | Elizabeth Hooper Proved 1854 |
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Attestation Papers
Stephen Bird 1893 George Burgess 1917
WWI
Casualty Biographies of WWI Church Roll of Honour Plaque WWI & WWII Honorable Discharge Certificate of Sidney Tuck 1919
WWII
Casualties
Home Guard
Home Guards 1940-1944 Home Guard Awards 1944
