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Wiltshire Ancestors

This group is for anyone with ancestors from the county of Wiltshire in England.

Location: Wiltshire, England
Members: 74
Latest Activity: Jan 6

Welcome to Wiltshire

Welcome to the Wiltshire Ancestors Group for all those who have an interest in the County of Wiltshire.

Please introduce yourself and your Wiltshire interests on the Comment Wall or start a discussion on the Discussion Forum.

Useful Links
Berkshire Family History Society have a number of Wiltshire related items in their Research Centre
Genuki Wiltshire
Goddard Association of Europe
Guild of One Name Studies
Moonrakers
Pictures of Wiltshire
Wikipedia
Wiltshire and Swindon Archives
Wiltshire Family History Society
Wiltshire Parishes A map of the parishes in the county
Wiltshire Wills Index of Wills held at Wiltshire Archives

Related Surname Groups on GenealogyWise
Breadmore Genealogy
CLIFF / CLIFFE / CLYFFE
Colbourne and Colborne
Doust
The GURD Family
HELLARD family from South Wraxall Wiltshire
Rawlin(g)s Family of Enford Wiltshire
WOODMAN family from Melksham, Wiltshire

Related Place Groups on GenealogyWise
England Family History
Mildenhall, Wiltshire

Discussion Forum

TOGOOD/TOOGOOD/TWOGOOD FAMILY OF MERE, WILTSHIRE

Hello everyone,I am trying to find information on my Togood/Toogood/Twogood Family (as you can see there are 3 different ways of spelling their last name) also there is a lot of information out…Continue

Started by Robyne Moran Oct 24, 2011.

Hall Family of Goatacre, 1600's

The earliest Hall I know of is a Thomas that was born about 1655 (give or take a few years), probably in Goatacre, of Hilmarton. He left England about 1681 and settled in Delaware Co., PA USA. If…Continue

Started by Jérome Armént Oct 16, 2010.

Ludgershall and area Name interests 6 Replies

Chandler.Cook,Burgess,Mathews,Cannons,Habberfield

Started by steve welling. Last reply by Andrew Hutchins Aug 22, 2010.

Find and Purchase Wiltshire Parish Records 9 Replies

I have been searching for over a 2 weeks for Wiltshire Parish Records prior to 1837. It seems The Wiltshire Historical Society has decided to allow the website "Find my past" a pay per view or…Continue

Tags: book, format, Cd, online, records

Started by Jen Barnett. Last reply by Jen Barnett May 23, 2010.

Comment Wall

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Comment by Christine Gibbins on September 2, 2009 at 4:34am
My Wiltshire links are with the DOEL name found in the North Bradley area and WHITE in Maiden Bradley. Both these families moved to Southampton in Hampshire.
Comment by Tony Williams on September 1, 2009 at 12:20pm
To introduce myself:

My main ancestral lines are based in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire but some came from Wiltshire. In particular I am interested in

BENNETT (Draycot and Wiltshire generally)
CONSTABLE (Swindon)
POOLE (Ashton Keynes)

Tony Williams
Comment by Jim North on September 1, 2009 at 10:55am
Hi
For my interests click on the - Related Surname Groups at the top of this page:
HELLARD Family from South Wraxall, Wiltshire.
Jim
Comment by Keith Cruse on September 1, 2009 at 10:25am
Hi everyone,
My interest's in Wiltshire are the SIMS family in Steeple Ashton / Semington area and the JOBBINS, HAYES, DICKENSON and GOSLETT families from Sherston Magna. I hope to visit Sherston soon and look for headstone inscriptions at Holy Cross churchyard.
Keith Cruse
Comment by Dorothy Gurd on September 1, 2009 at 10:14am
Have you looked on the Wiltshire Wills website for your Griffins Rita? There are 93 documents. The indexed Wills are all held at the Wiltshire Archives and you can order copies by email. It's worth running a search for a place rather than a name, as this may pick up names which have been spelled differently. The website is at http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/index.php
Hope all the Group members find something useful. Keep checking back, as they are still adding to the list.
Dot
Comment by Andrew Young for Margaret Young on September 1, 2009 at 6:14am
Welcome Roux - now there's a challenge!
Comment by RouX Renard on September 1, 2009 at 6:11am
I have a bunch of SAINSBURY and CLELFORD ancestors on my tree at Ancestry.co.uk, plus many, many more old Wiltshire families. Happy to help folks looking for these.

I'd also like to offer a cheque for £1 MILLION to anyone who can find my suspected father, Christopher Henry Lodge Thomas, b.21 Oct 1909 in West Lavington. He is on the 1911 Census at my Great Grandfather Archibald Wm Phillips, but NOTHING from there on. He may have become a Phillips, or may have changed his name entirely. As I said, I'd LIKE to offer a cheque... ;-)

I'm happy to go with a 'No Find - No Fee' detective agency, if anyone can suggest one, but either way the finder will get a mention in the book I am writing on my search.
Comment by Andrew Young for Margaret Young on September 1, 2009 at 3:10am
My own interests are
BREADMORE - my One Name Study - probably originated in the Bridmore area, near Berwick St John as first sightings were at Tisbury.
GODDARD at Easton Royal, CHOULES and STURGES in the Burbage area.
DAUGHTON, LEWINGTON, SIMS and TARRANT from Mildenhall.
On my husbands side
POTHECARY from Corton and Boyton.
BENNETT, FORD, THRING and WHATLEY from Steeple Langford and Hanging Langford.
MACEY from Fisherton Delamere.
BOUNDS / BOWNS and YOUNG form Wylye.
Comment by Andrew Young for Margaret Young on September 1, 2009 at 2:11am
Welcome to the 12 members who have joined overnight. If you have not already done so please tell us your Wilshire interests and names.
Comment by rita a gerrard on September 1, 2009 at 2:07am
I've recently got back to my maternal 2xgt grandfather Robert GRIFFIN who is believed to originate from Salisbury, bc 1790 - this has yet to be confirmed.Another recent discovery is my gt grandmother Elizabeth WATERS' ancestors originate from Stratford sub Castle and Durnford area. Elizabeth's grandfather George WATERS brn c 1787 in SSC, died 1874 Edmonton, N London having moved around Kent & Lowestoft. My GERRARD line are believed to originate from Broad Chalk way back, before emigrating to Somerset and Dorset.. Any links to these families will be most welcome. rita
 

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