South Marston Wiltshire Family History Guide

South Marston is a chapelry of Highworth with Sevenhampton Ancient Parish in Wiltshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1539
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1585

Nonconformists include: Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MARSTON (SOUTH), a chapelry in Highworth parish, Wilts; adjacent to the Great Western railway and to the river Cole at the boundary with Berks, 2¾ miles W of Shrivenham r. station, and 3¼ S by W of Highworth. Post town, Highworth, under Swindon.

Real property, with Stanton-Fitzwarren and Sevenhampton, £11,536. Rated property of S. M. alone, £3,827. Pop., 370. Houses, 85. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £175. Patron, the Vicar of Highworth. The church is ancient and tolerable.

There is a subscription school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

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England, Wiltshire, South Marston – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Highworth, 1583-1868
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Highworth (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of South Marston (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Sevenhampton (Wiltshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for South Marston, 1585-1812
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of South Marston (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, South Marston – Court records ( 1 )
Court records, 1623-1667
Author: Church of England. Prebendal Court (Highworth)

England, Wiltshire, South Marston – History ( 1 )
Happier days
Author: Howard, Frank

England, Wiltshire, South Marston – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Manor court rolls in Latton, Wiltshire, 1584-1656
Author: Manor of Latton. Court (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, South Marston – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Out relief from the board of guardians’ minutes of Highworth & Swindon Union, 1842-1879
Author: Hurley, Beryl; Hassell, Margory; Highworth and Swindon Union (Wiltshire); Wiltshire Family History Society

England, Wiltshire, South Marston – Probate records ( 1 )
Probate records, 1623-1775
Author: Church of England. Prebendal Court (Highworth)

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Highworth
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebendal of Highworth
  • Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Cricklade
  • Poor Law Union: Highworth and Swindon
  • Hundred: Highworth, Cricklade and Staple
  • Province: Canterbury