Wiltshire

Known as the Gateway to the West Country situated in the South West of the country. Home of ancient mystical sites, such as Stonehenge, Silbury Hill and Avebury. Famed for its beautiful countryside with white horses carved into the hills. Castle Combe was voted the prettiest Village in England. Sir John Betjeman went to school at Marlborough College
County town: Trowbridge Other major towns: Devizes, Salisbury, Swindon, Warminster Wiltshire Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum	Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• County Record Office

• Wiltshire Births Marriages & Deaths UKBMD project

• Wiltshire Genweb project

• Wiltshire Family History Society

• Online Parish Clerks

• Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre May 2009

Countywide Interest

• Transcribed BMDs and other documents (Clives Home Pages)

• Pigot's Trade Directory of 1830

• Index of the Poll of Wiltshire Freeholders 1772

• Wiltshire Genealogy

• North Wiltshire Musters Name Index to North Wiltshire Musters 1834

• Wiltshire Genweb project

• Wiltshire Community History

• Moonrakers Wiltshire Genealogy and History Includes Gravestone Photographs and War Memorial Transcriptions

• Duncan and Mandy's website

• Wiltshire Genealogy - includes some Parish Records

• The Visitation of Wiltshire 1623

• Wiltshire and Swindon Archive Catalogue - Wiltshire Wills

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Alderbury and Whaddon Local History Research Group

• Atworth Family History

• Bradford on Avon History and Facts

• The Parish of Bradford on Avon

• Burbage Family History and Genealogy

• The History of Chitterne

• Devizes Workhouse Births 1848-1902

• Devizes Workhouse Deaths 1866-1902

• Donhead St Mary Baptisms

• Fovant History Interest Group

• The Lydiards - Lydiard Tregoze and Lydiard Millicent a one-place study

• Lyneham Village

• Maiden Bradley

• Ramsbury at War (WW2)

• South Marston

• Sutton Veny

• Swindon Genealogy

• Trowbridge Museum of The Cloth Industry

• West Grimstead Family History

• West Harnham Genealogy

• Wylye Valley Ancestry

Maps and Photographs

• Wiltshire Churches

• War Memorials and Rolls of Honour

Books of local interest

Register Office

• Wiltshire BMD copy certificates

Chippenham

The Register Office
4 Timber Street Chippenham
SN15 3BZ
Tel 01249 654361

Devizes and Marlborough

The Register Office
The Beeches
Bath Road
Devizes
SN10 2AL
Tel 01380 722162

Salisbury

The Register Office
The Laburnums
50 Bedwin Street
Salisbury
SP1 3UW
Tel 01722 335340

Trowbridge

The Register Office
The Chestnuts
Bythesea Road
Trowbridge
BA14 8EZ
Tel 01225 713097

Warminster

The Register Office
3 The Avenue
Warminster
BA12 9AB
Tel 01985 213435

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Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts

• Wiltshire & Swindon R/O Occasionally Nana Anna

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