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Is it worth visiting Wiltshire Records Office?
« on: Sunday 23 December 18 23:43 GMT (UK) »
Hi All,

I just wanted to ask whether it was worth visiting the Wiltshire Records Office. Do you think I'll be able to find any interesting records about people in my family tree?

What kind of records are offered which aren't provided on sites like Ancestry and FindMyPast?

Thanks,
Ben

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Re: Is it worth visiting Wiltshire Records Office?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 23 December 18 23:59 GMT (UK) »
If you Google Wiltshire Records Office you can find what type of records they offer. 

Whether it is worth you visiting is dependent on exactly what you are looking for that isn't available online
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Re: Is it worth visiting Wiltshire Records Office?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 24 December 18 08:37 GMT (UK) »
Ok thanks.  :)

I'm at the end of the research I can realistically do with ancestry. The question really is whether I'll likely find out (anything at all) interesting based on the records they offer?

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Re: Is it worth visiting Wiltshire Records Office?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 24 December 18 10:02 GMT (UK) »
For a start, Parish Records are available.
These are mostly unavailable elsewhere.

I wold say definitely worth a visit, but expect to spend many happy hours there ;D
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)


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Re: Is it worth visiting Wiltshire Records Office?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 24 December 18 10:15 GMT (UK) »
Thanks :)

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Re: Is it worth visiting Wiltshire Records Office?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 24 December 18 10:24 GMT (UK) »
Record Offices have miles of shelving holding masses of information not available elsewhere, you have barely begun to research if you haven't visited a Record Office.

As already advised, take a look at the catalogue but note, only part of it is yet on line.


https://calmview.wiltshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Aboutcatalogue.aspx
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Is it worth visiting Wiltshire Records Office?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 24 December 18 10:41 GMT (UK) »
It all depends on what sort of footprint your ancestors left, the Wiltshire parish registers  and Wiltshire Wills are on Ancestry.  http://www.wshc.eu/wiltshire-wills-project.html
There are many other records available at Chippenham,
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  WILSON;-Wiltshire.
 SOUL;-Gloucestershire.
 SANSUM;-Berkshire-Wiltshire
 BASSON-BASTON;- Berkshire,- Oxfordshire.
 BRIDGES;- Wiltshire.
 DOWDESWELL;-Wiltshire,Gloucestershire
 JORDAN;- Berkshire.
 COX;- Berkshire.
 GOUDY;- Suffolk.
 CHATFIELD;-Sussex-- London
 MORGAN;-Blaenavon-Abersychan
 FISHER;- Berkshire.
 BLOMFIELD-BLOOMFIELD-BLUMFIELD;-Suffolk.
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ARDEN.
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Re: Is it worth visiting Wiltshire Records Office?
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 25 December 18 21:48 GMT (UK) »
I recently deposited the records of our family farming business there. I was able to explore the history of the farm before we moved there including the vast auction sale of the estate on which it stood - the cause being death duties after several members of that family were killed in WW1. There were also records from the 1940s of permission for building works when everything - even a bag of cement - was rationed.
Quarter Sessions records can provide some gems, but you need to trawl through them!
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan

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Re: Is it worth visiting Wiltshire Records Office?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 10 January 19 23:39 GMT (UK) »
Certainly a good idea to pop over to Chippenham for the records they hold. Their microfiche and transcripts helped me to pin down a tricky part of my line linking to the South Newton Henstridge's