Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire Genealogy
Guide to Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
STOKE, LIMPLEY,
LIMPLEY-STOKE, a Tything, in the chapelry of Winsley. It is located in the union and hundred of Bradford, Westbury in the county of Wilts(Wiltshire). It is on the boundary with Somerset, 3¼ miles W of Bradford. limpley-stoke is in the subdivisions of Trowbridge and Bradford.[1][2]
The village stands near the river Avon, the Kennet and Avon canal, the Bathampton branch of the Great Western railway.
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]
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[3] | |||||
| NIM = Nimrod Research - (£). Results delivered by email.[4] |
| Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| NBI | 1611-1837 | |||||
| NIM | 1622-1837 | 1611-1837 | 1622-1837 | |||
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. 217-220. Date accessed: 30 September 2013.
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)
- ↑ '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.
