Chippenham with Tytherton Lucas, Wiltshire Genealogy
Guide to Chippenham with Tytherton Lucas, Wiltshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Chippenham with Tytherton Lucas, Wiltshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Chippenham |
| County | Wiltshire |
| Poor Law Union | Chippenham |
| Registration District | Chippenham |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1578; Separate registers exist for Tytherton Lucas beginning 1812 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1605; Separate records exist for Tytherton Lucas beginning 1813 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Malmesbury |
| Diocese | Gloucester and Bristol |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire |
| Location of Archive | |
| Wiltshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
CHIPPENHAM (St. Andrew), a borough, market town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Chippenham, Chippenham and Calne, and N. divisions of Wilts, 33 miles (N. W. by N.) from Salisbury, and 93 (W.) from London; with the chapelry of Tytherton-Lucas, where there is a chapel of ease. There are places of worship in the town for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Chippenham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
| NIM = Nimrod Research - (£). Results delivered by email.[4] |
| Chippenham Parish Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1876-1902 | |||||
| IGI | 1570-1875 | 1578-1611, 1653-1884 | ||||
| NIM | 1577-1837 | 1578-1837 | ||||
Tytherton Lucas chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Tytherton Lucas Chapelry Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1813-1837 | |||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Information about the parish may be found on Wiltshire Online Parish Clerks. Records are also available at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre.
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Genealogy from Periodicals[edit | edit source]
Mattravers, Philip. The Matravers Family.
History and Family Tree of the Mat(t)ravers family of Joseph and Elizabeth Matravers of Donyatt, Taunton, Weston-Super-Mare and Chippenham. Article covers 1780-1929, and is to be found in The Family History Journal of the South East Hampshire Genealogical Society, no. 5, February 1975, pages 100-102, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2f
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Wiltshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 599-603. Date accessed: 24 August 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 10 January 2014.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Wiltshire, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 15 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Wiltshire Parish Explorer,' Nimrod Research, accessed 8 January 2014.
