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We can provide a full Research and Advice service in all matters relating to Family History. All work is carried out at a standard hourly rate, using all our indexes and sources, plus the facilities and records at the Wiltshire & Swindon Record Office. There is no minimum (or maximum) charge for research undertaken, so please ask for whatever you want. We can carry out searches in these Record Offices:
[return to top | request a search] We have about 65% of all Wiltshire parishes transcribed for baptism and burial records, which can be searched by individual parish. Our records also include an index of Quaker births and deaths (1650 to 1837) and a database of Swindon Methodist Circuit baptisms (1850-1940), approx. 13,000 entries. To see what transcripts and indexes we have access to, select the parish that interests you from this drop-down menu.
[return to top | request a search] All of Wiltshire in one searchable database. Fully complete as far as surviving documents allow (about 254,000 marriages, including approx 6000 'stray' marriages from other counties). Earliest marriages date from 1538 when parish records began, and our Index goes up to 1837 with the start of Civil Registration.
[return to top | request a search] Information taken from the 24 Courts of Wills held in the Wiltshire Record Office, plus the P.C.C. Wills from the National Archives. This index also includes Administrations, Bonds, Inventories, Tuition Bonds, and Inquisitions post-mortem. Dating from 1242 to 1887. About 110,000 Will references.
[return to top | request a search] All of Wiltshire's 1851 Census returns in one searchable database. Contains about 256,000 names. Lists names, ages, relationships, birthplaces, and enumerator's house reference.
[return to top | request a search] Contains entries dating from 1242 to 1930, and records the personal names of Wiltshire people, from all sources not included in our other indexes, ie: apprentices, settlement examinations & certificates, bastardy, army personnel, removal orders, court papers, directory entries, quarter- sessions, non-conformists, early census entries 17th & 18th centuries, coroners reports, obituaries, tax records, enclosure awards, rents, overseers, pedigrees, machine breakers, transportations, tithe awards, bankrupts, insurance records, poor law union, wills (mentioned in), snippets from newspapers, names taken from numerous reference books on Wiltshire, etc. or anything else recorded in historical documents relating to named persons, etc. (about 360,000 entries and still growing). An invaluable source for putting the flesh on the bones.
[return to top | request a search] LOCATION of DOCUMENTS for WILTSHIRE PARISHES by Dr B. J. Carter. Each Wiltshire parish has had its documents and their sources listed, and these have been produced in a separate document for each of the 350 parishes. These list: Registers, Church records, Dissenters, Manor records, Tithes, Census, Taxes, Poor Law Union, Wills, Local registrar, Local Societies, Bibliography etc.
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You will need to write to us (postal or email enquiries only) with your search details. Send this to us at:
or email us at: enquiries@nimrodresearch.co.uk We will then send you a cost, and a quote reference number, with details of how to pay using our on-line credit-card payment system. With all indexes, please provide all variants of the surname, which will be charged as one surname. Payment methods accepted:
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10% discount offered on search charges only, to Wiltshire Family History Society members if you quote your membership number (excludes postage costs and research work).
Did you find what you were looking for? If not, try the following Wiltshire-specific genealogy sites:
We also offer this nifty FREE regnal year converter - make sense of dates that give only the year of an English monarch's reign. David Carter is the author of a book about a
Devonshire village entitled David and Jenny Carter are also the proprietors of
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