All Cannings, Wiltshire Family History Guide

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All Cannings is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire. Etchilhampton is a chapelry of All Cannings.

Alternative names: All Cannings with Etchilhampton, Allcannings

Other places in the parish include: Allington, Etchilhampton, and Fallaway

Parish church: St. Anne (until c.1928), All Saints

Parish registers begin: 1579

Nonconformists include: Baptist (at Allington)

Adjacent Parishes

All Cannings Parish Registers

The Registers of Allcannings, and Etchilhampton, Wiltshire. Transcribed by Joseph Henry Parry, B.A., Barrister-at-Law, and late Scholar of New College. Devizes: Gazette Printing Works. 1905.– This book is a free download from Parishmouse

All Cannings Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from All Cannings. The index includes information from Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837

Marriage Licences and Allegations

The following have been extracted from Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens. Parishes without a named county are parishes within the county of Hampshire.

Cosens, Henry, of All Cannings, co. Wilts, husbandman, & Ann Hopkins, of Alton, sp., at Winnall, Weeke, or the Cathedral, 17 Feb., 1723

Allington Residents 1855

Tuckwell Mr Joshua Carby

Burgess Henry farmer

Dowse Robert carpenter 

Godwin James farmer

Morley Simon shopkeeper

Parry Joseph farmer 

Stevens John mason 

Source: Post office [afterw.] Kelly’s directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire (the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands) 1855

Parish History

All Cannings

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ALLCANNINGS, a tything and a parish in Devizes district, Wilts. The tything lies on the Avon canal, 2 miles S of Wans dyke, 4 miles E by N of Devizes r. station; and has a post office under Devizes. Pop., 602. Houses, 138. The parish contains also the tythings of Allington, Etchilhampton, and Fallaway. Acres, 5,483. Real property, £8,647. Pop., 1,013. Houses, 230. The manor-house is a building of the 14th century, now used as a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, and was formerly a prebend, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £1,100. Patron, Lord Ashburton. The church was partly built in the 17th century. Charities, £19.

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

Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Allcannings, a parish in the hund. of Swanborough, union of Devizes, county of Wilts, comprising the tythings of Allcannings, Allington. and Tullaway; 4 miles east by north from Devizes. Living, a rectory, with the chapel of Etchilhampton, in the archd. of Wilts and dio. of Salisbury; rated at £31 16s. 10½d.; gross income £1,187. Patron, in 1835, Alexander Baring, Esq. The church was partly built in the 17th century. There was formerly a prebend here, rated at £13. Annual income of charities connected with this parish, £19 4s. 8d. Pop., in 1821, 749; in 1831, 811. Houses 149. Acres 4,470. A. P. £5,917. Poor rates, in 1837, £378.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Allcannings, 4 miles E. Devize’s. P. 1148.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ALLCANNINGS (St. Anne), a parish, in the union of Devizes, hundred of Swanborough, Devizes and N. divisions of Wilts, 5¾ miles (E.) from Devizes; comprising the chapelry of Etchilhampton and the tythings of Allington and Fullaway, and containing 851 inhabitants. On the downs is St. Anne’s hill, on which a large fair for sheep and horses is held on the 6th of August. The Kennet and Avon canal affords facility for the conveyance of goods.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £31. 16. 10½., and in the gift of Lord Ashburton: the tithes, including those of Etchilhampton, have been commuted for £1204. 5., and the glebe comprises 36 acres. The church is an ancient structure in the Norman style. There is a chapel of ease at Etchilhampton. Miss Anne Lavington, in 1828, bequeathed £500, the interest to be distributed among the poor at Christmas.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Allington

Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Allington, a township or tything in the parish of All-Cannings, Wilts, on the Kennet and Avon canal. There is a daily school here. Pop., in 1801, 145; in 1831, 162. Houses 32. A. P. £1,259. Poor rates, in 1837, £107.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

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