This Kelly's directory gives an effective overview of the public life of Hampshire (including the Isle of Wight), Wiltshire, Dorset and the Channel Islands in 1899. It lists residents and local businesses, and carries historical and topographical descriptions of all towns, villages and parishes, information on local courts, churches, agriculture and landowners. These directories are invaluable to those interested in building up a picture of contemporary lives, or anyone wanting to know more abo More Info
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A4 softback. 56 pages There were several Wiltshire county coroners during the period from 1815 to 1858 and it is hoped that most of them have been identified as to their place of abode [see Appendix 1]. Coroners submitted their bills of expenses to the county treasurer for mileage undertaken to take an inquisition upon notification of a sudden or suspicious death which had happened in their par...More Info
Indexed transcript from original records held at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre of all those who joined Wiltshire Constabulary between 1839 and 1927. At 535 pages, this is our largest single publication. The product is available as a download.
Tithes were originally payments made in kind to the clergy of the parish to support the church and its incumbent. By the nineteenth century, there was a hodge-podge of arrangements for paying this tax to the church. “An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales" (more commonly known as “The Tithe Commutation Act”) was passed in 1836 to convert in-kind payments to monetary paymen...More Info
Land Tax started in 1692 and remained until the mid 20th century. Between 1780-1832 copies were required to be sent to the Clerk of the Peace of each county to be used to establish the right of those eligible to vote in parliamentary elections (not everyone paying land tax had that right). Thus returns for those years are generally complete whereas before and after very few have survived. The retu...More Info
Softback. 348 pages The information in this publication has been taken from the apprenticeship indentures, for boys and girls, most of which are found in the parish collections in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. Numbers of indentures in the parishes vary from 1,754 for Bradford on Avon to just one for Lydiard Millicent but this may not indicate the total apprenticed since the indentures m...More Info