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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This publication is part of a series dealing with a collection of vagrants passes which is contained in fourteen large boxes dating from 1702 through to 1838 with some breaks in dates. It has been roughly estimated that each box contains over 3000 passes which were for expenses incurred by the passing of vagrants, mostly for those from outside the county, being passed through Wiltshire and its co...More Info
The 14 Registers (Gloucester Record Office Registers, 1815-1879 Q/Gc 5/1 to 5/7; & Q/Gc 6/1 to 6/7) record details of the prisoners remanded in custody to the County Gaol at Gloucester while awaiting trial, in chronological order of committal. There are 486 people from Wiltshire included. In addition to the information given in this index, the registers contain other details including the i...More Info
The confirmations in this publication, with the exception of Bromham, which is still held by the Church, are deposited in Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre. Over 3,000 records, all for the year 1787, are in the Diocesan records. The rest are in the parish records, some of which are in specially printed books and a few in parish registers. Candidates may not have been confirmed in the parish ...More Info
A4 paperback. 110pp The Wiltshire County Asylum was opened on the 19 September 1851 and cared for its patients until its closure on the 25 October 1995. Many of the patients who were treated remained there until their deaths and were then buried in the grounds of the Asylum. Burials ended on the 1 May 1966 when the available space had been used. Burials were then transferred to the Devizes B...More Info
Wiltshire Soldiers Wounded in the English Civil War, Petitions for Parliamentarian and Royalist Pensions Originally Quarter Sessions considered each application in detail with supporting evidence from the soldier’s military commander and local dignitaries. Again, this was more than the full meeting of Quarter Sessions could deal with. In 1662, the petitions were first referred to local JP...More Info