Society of Genealogists - England: Wiltshire Resources

Wiltshire

Shelf Mark: WL

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers
Marriage Licences
Monumental Inscriptions
Censuses
Directories & Poll Books
Periodicals
Wills
Parishes: A-B | C-D | E-K | L-N | O-S | T-Z |

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Wiltshire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 8, part 2: Wiltshire. London: SoG, 1992. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Location of documents for Wiltshire parishes: additions & alterations as at April 1987 [Computer printout.] [Box 74/folder 1]

Transcripts of Wiltshire parish registers at the museum, Devizes [a listing] [Typescript.] [Wiltshire tracts box]]

White horse baptism index [list of Wiltshire parishes included in the index], issue no. 9, Aug 1986 [Wiltshire tracts box]

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

Abstracts of documents, monumental inscriptions, & other genealogical material relative to Wiltshire [Typescript.] [WL/G 41]

Baptisms from 16 parishes south of Swindon (earliest records to 1837) [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet (WL/REG)]

Extracts from Salisbury Diocesan records: notes taken at Salisbury, June 5 & 6 1931, June 1933, etc. [extracts from Act books 1580-1780 & some Bishop's Transcripts & marriage licences] [Manuscript.] [WL/G 15]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Gloucestershire & Wiltshire Quarterly Meeting: Z 1642-1837 & 1647-1750, M 1656-1836 & 1658-1704, B 1655-1837 & 1658-1756 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3392]

The records of the Bishop of Salisbury administrative records: transcripts of parish registers to 1812, Wilts., 1813-42, Wilts. & Berks. & The records of the peculiars administrative records: transcripts of parish records [in Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire & Devon (1 only) to 1812]: Wiltshire miscellanea [Typescript.] [WL/G 45

Wilson-Trace burials index (collection 1) [primarily up to 1837] [CD-ROM.] [CD-ROM cabinet]

Wiltshire burial index [primarily up to 1837] [Microfiche.] [WL/REG/92477, 94947/1-10]

Wiltshire FHS strays index [Microfiche.] [WL/GEN/93170/1-13]

Wiltshire marriage index (collection 1) [primarily up to 1837] [CD-ROM.] [SOGNET]

Wiltshire Monthly Meeting (Quaker): M(I) 1657-1837: Wiltshire parish marriage index, vol. 7 [Microfiche.] [WL/REG/96788/1]

Marriage Licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

Bishop's marriage licence bonds & allegations for the Diocese of Sarum, 2nd series, 1630-81 & 1606-20 [Microfiche.] [ML/SAL/102617/1-2]

Bishop's marriage licence bonds & allegations for the Diocese of Sarum, 1606-1700 index of bridegrooms & brides [Microfiche.] [ML/SAL/103667/1-4]

Bishop's marriage licence bonds & allegations for the Diocese of Sarum, 1621-45, 1653 & 1660-1700 [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Bishop's marriage licence bonds for the Diocese of Sarum, 1700-49, 1750-99 & 1800-37 indexes of bridegrooms & brides [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Bishop's marriage licence bonds for the Diocese of Sarum, 1700-1837 [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Dean of Salisbury marriage licence bonds & allegations 1604?-45, 1660-99 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3610]

Dean's marriage licence bonds for the Diocese of Sarum, index of bridegrooms & brides 1573-1700 & 1700-1837 [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Dean's marriage licence bonds for the Diocese of Sarum, 1573-1837 [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Marriage bonds for the Diocese of Bristol excluding the Archdeaconry of Dorset, vol. 1, 1637-1700: Publications of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Records Section, vol. 1 [GL/PER]

Marriage bonds of the peculiar court of Dean & Chapter of Sarum, 1629-90: Wiltshire notes & queries, vol. 6, 7 & 8 [WL/PER]

Salisbury marriage licences, part 2: marriage bonds of the peculiar court of Dean & Chaper of Salisbury 1739-43: in continuation of those (to 1690) printed in Wiltshire notes & queries, vol. 6, 7 & 8 [Typescript.] [WL/R 115]

Marriage licences of Salisbury 1615-31, 1633-34, 1636-46, 1653, 1660-82: The Genealogist new series, vol. 24-38 [PER/GEN]

Salisbury marriage licences, part 1: Bishop of Salisbury's bonds, 1682-1700: continuation of those printed in the Genealogist, NS, vol. 24-38 [Typescript.] [WL/R 115]

Miscellaneous marriage licence bonds for the diocese of Sarum: Dean & Chapter [1585, 1601-39, 1662-1709, 1714-1837; Treasurer 1663-1837] [Microfiche.] [ML/SAL/101465/1-3]

Miscellaneous marriage licence bonds for the diocese of Sarum: Including Precentor Westbury, Bratton & Dilton 1609-1837; Peculiar of Corsham & Stratton St. Margaret 1628-1765; Prebend of Chute & Chisenbury & Winterbourne Dauncey 1612-1818 [Microfiche.] [ML/SAL/101466/1-3]

Salisbury marriage licences, part 3-4: index to parties to be married & indexes to witnesses & bondsmen [Typescript.] [WL/R 115]

Wiltshire marriage licences: M 1615-40, 1661-81: Wiltshire miscellanea [BTs including some for Hampshire parishes] [Microfiche.] [Shelf 9 (WL/REG)]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

Abstracts of documents, monumental inscriptions, & other genealogical material relative to Wiltshire [Typescript.] [WL/G 41]

Anglo-Indian monumental inscriptions - Bath: being a series of 1575 monumental inscriptions in & near Bath commemorating for the most part persons directly connected with India: in Anglo-Indian collections, vol. 2 [Typescript.] [IND/R 9]

The indents of lost monumental brasses in Wiltshire; being a record of the remaining indents, or matrices, fully illustrated by the author's drawings [WL/M 8]

The monumental brasses of Wiltshire: a series of examples of these memorials ranging from the 13th to the 17th centuries [WL/M 6]

Monumental inscriptions of Wiltshire 1822: Wiltshire Record Society, vol. 53 [WL/PER]

Wessex has their bones: who's buried where in Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire & the Isle of Wight [DO/M 36]

Wiltshire: the topographical collection of John Aubrey, FRS, 1659-70: Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Society, vol. 1 [WL/G 30]

Wiltshire FHS strays index [Microfiche.] [WL/GEN/93170/1-13]

Wiltshire monumental inscriptions [Microfiche.] [WL/MI/74012/1-380]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. Horningsham 1801 census &

Local censuses in Wiltshire [all pre-1841 apart from Woodford 1887] [WL/CEN/96434/1-4]

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

WILTSHIRE - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

WILTSHIRE - DIRECTORIES

or WILTSHIRE - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives.

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at www.findmypast.com (formerly 1837online)

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

WILTSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Parishes

A-B

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue