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The registers of over 270 Wiltshire parishes are deposited at the Wiltshire Record Office in Trowbridge. Those of the city parishes of Salisbury are kept at the District Council Muniment Room in Salisbury under the control of the Wiltshire Record Office.
A brief list of registers is held at both Trowbridge and Salisbury. Copies can be supplied at cost of production or details of holdings for individual parishes notified on request.
All the deposits begin with the earliest extant register (which may vary from 1538 to the late 17th century or even early 18th century. The closing date of the deposit series varies; it is often 1813 or 1837, but can sometimes be much later.
The incumbent of the parish concerned must be approached for registers not in the Record Office.
Some of the registers have been transcribed, indexed or both.
Researchers should note the 14 volumes of Wiltshire Parish Registers: Marriages edited by WPW Phillimore and J Sadler (1905-15) - copies of this publication are available at theWiltshire Record Office and Local Studies Libraries in the county.
An index to baptisms and marriages appearing in certain parishes is maintained by the Genealogical Society of Utah in the USA (affiliated with the Mormon Church). About fifty parochial and sixty non-parochial Wiltshire registers have been indexed. The Genealogical Society of Utah's records may be searched on the internet; Click here
see also Using Parish Registers
In 1837, at the establishment of civil registration, Non-Conformist bodies were invited to send their extant registers of births, baptisms and burials to the General Register Officer for permanent preservation.
The extant records of 71 Wiltshire meeting houses were deposited and are held by the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane Division.
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Similar records of the Society of Friends ('Quakers') which begin in the mid-17th century were also transferred at that time. These are printed in Wiltshire Notes and Queries, vol. i-iii and a complete transcript is among records deposited by the Society of Friends in the Wiltshire record Office (accession no. 854).
There is a brief list in the County record Office and most have been indexed by the The Genealogical Society of Utah.
Official censuses only began in England in 1801.
Prior to 1801, 'listings of the inhabitants of parishes are sometimes found. These may give the names of all persons living in the parish, or only that of the householder.
In Wiltshire, the Record Office has a group of such listings for about a dozen parishes around Swindon dating between 1697 and 1705. There are a few dating from the 18th and 19th centuries for other places.
see also: Census Records in the UK
The compulsory registration of births, marriages and deaths commenced on July 1st, 1837. These records replace parish registers from this date because they are far more comprehensive.
For the purpose of registration, each county is divided into districts based on local government areas.
There are eight district registrars in Wiltshire, each of whom has registers from 1837 in his custody; Chippenham, Devizes, Marlborough, Mere, Salisbury, Swindon, Trowbridge and Warminster.
There are indexes to these registers which may be searched and certified copies of the entries may be obtained on payment of the appropriate fee.
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