As well as over 200 pages of registers, this CD includes records of the Churchwardens (1673-1707 and extracts to 1842), Overseers and their Accounts (extracts 1705-1836), Indentures (1675-1838), Vestry Book (1837-1885), and Constables (1818-1839). There is an article on the founder of the Church and Guild, Walter Cook, while further chapters cover a Record of a Manor Court at Knowle in 1278, a Certificate of Consecration of the Church, two medieval wills, a 1616 inventory, a roll of Knowle inhab More Info
Product Code: GRD5945
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Based on a book at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, ref 543/22, titled: "List of the Poor of the parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Borough of Devizes, alphabetically distinguishing between those who receive ordinary from those who receive extraordinary relief together with an account of their respective families, ages, employment, residence and etc., taken at a vestry the 21st March 1802...More Info
Based on the vicar's visiting book and the curates' notebook. A5 softback 35 pages.
An incumbents visiting book, written about 1925. A5 softback 22 pages, with index.
Letters from applicants for poor relief from out of parish 1816-1821, and account book 1826-1835 giving payments to poor with names & details, and income from fathers of bastards. A5 softback 39 pages.