Old Sarum, Wiltshire Genealogy
Guide to Old Sarum, Wiltshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Old Sarum, Wiltshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Extra-parochial area (England) |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Underditch |
| County | Wiltshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Alderbury |
| Registration District | Alderbury |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: For records see surrounding parishes | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: For records see surrounding parishes | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Not Applicable |
| Diocese | Not Applicable |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Salisbury (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
SARUM, OLD, formerly a representative borough, in the parish of Stratford-under-the-Castle, union of Alderbury. It is located in the hundred of Underditch and in the county of Wilts (Wiltshire), 1½ mile (N.) from Salisbury.
The city stood on a lofty eminence, on the S border of Salisbury plain it is nearly midway between the rivers Avon and Bourn. It is on the Lcknield-street, at the convergence of Roman roads from Winchester, Silchester, Speen, the Severn, and Dorchester. The location occupies the site of the Roman station, Sorbiodunum.[1] [2]
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]
Old Sarum parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Old Sarum Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FMP | 1530-1917 | 1538-1933 | 1538-1990 | |||
| FMP Banns | 1538-1933 | |||||
| ANC 1 | 1538-1812 | 1538-1812 | 1538-1812 | |||
| ANC 2 | 1813-1916 | 1754-1916 | 1813-1916 | |||
| ANC Marr | 1538-1837 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
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. 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. 20-23. Date accessed: 07 October 2013.
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
