Stanton St Bernard, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Stanton St Bernard is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.

Alternative names: St Bernard Stanton, Staunton St Bernard

Parish church: All Saints

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1568
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STANTON-ST. BERNARD, a parish in Devizes district, Wilts; on the Kennet and Avon canal, 2¼ miles NW by N of Woodborough r. station, and 5½ E by N of Devizes. It has a post-office under Marlborough.

Acres, 1,979. Real property, £3,139. Pop., 358. Houses, 77. The manor belongs to the Earl of Pembroke.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £222. Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The church was recently rebuilt.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £47.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Wiltshire, Stanton-St. Bernard – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Stanton-St. Bernard, 1851-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, Stanton-St. Bernard – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Stanton-St. Bernard, 1602-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stanton-St. Bernard (Wiltshire)

Transcripts of baptism and burials from the surviving bishop’s transcripts and parish registers of Stanton St. Bernard 1568-1837
Author: Burstow, Mike; Hurley, John; Wiltshire Family History Society

England, Wiltshire, Stanton-St. Bernard – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1848-1932
Author: Devizes Union (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Stanton-St. Bernard – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in Stanton-St. Bernard, Wiltshire 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

FamilySearch Historical Records

Directories

Kelly’s Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and the Isle of Wight 1889

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Devizes
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Avebury
  • Poor Law Union: Devizes
  • Hundred: Swanborough (Wiltshire)
  • Province: Canterbury