Lea and Cleverton, Wiltshire Genealogy
Guide to Lea and Cleverton, Wiltshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Lea and Cleverton, Wiltshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Malmesbury |
| County | Wiltshire |
| Poor Law Union | Malmesbury |
| Registration District | Malmesbury |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1751 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1605 | |
| 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]
LEA (St. Giles), a village and a parish in Malmsbury district in the county of Wilts (Wiltshire). It is located in the hundred of Malmesbury, Malmesbury and Kingswood. The village stands 1½ miles ESE of Malmsbury, and 7½ miles SW of Minety railway station. [1] [2] [3]
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]
| FMP = findmypast - (£)[4] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[5] | |||||
| NIM = Nimrod Research - (£). Results delivered by email.[6] |
| Lea and Cleverton, Wiltshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1500s-1800s | |||||
| NBI | 1606-1837 | |||||
| NIM | 1605-1837 | 1605-1837 | 1605-1837 | |||
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.
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. 40-42. Date accessed: 30 September 2013.
- ↑ From: 'Layer-Breton - Lea-Newbold', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 40-42. British HistoryDate accessed: 30 September 2013.
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)
- ↑ 'Search more than 99,000 new Wiltshire parish baptism records,' findmypast, accessed 5 June 2014. Coverage year range is not clearly identified.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 3 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Wiltshire Parish Explorer,' Nimrod Research, accessed 8 January 2014.
