Cheverell Magna, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Cheverell Magna is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.

Alternative names: Great Cheverell

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1653
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Adjacent Parishes

• Little Cheverell
• Imber
• Erlestoke
• Potterne

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHEVERELL (Great), a parish in Devizes district, Wilts; 2½ miles W by N of Market-Lavington, and 5½ SSW of Devizes r. station. It has a post office under Devizes.

Acres, 1,840. Real property, £3,197. Pop., 561. Houses, 121. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Heytesbury hospital.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £353. Patron, the Rev. R. M. Atkinson. The church was reported in 1859 to need repairs. Charities, £15.

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

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Wiltshire, Great Cheverell – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Great Cheverell, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, Great Cheverell – Church records ( 5 )
The bishop’s transcripts and parish registers of Great Cheverell, baptisms, 1622-1837
Author: Wiltshire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Great Cheverell (Wiltshire)

The bishop’s transcripts and parish registers of Great Cheverell, burials, 1653-1837
Author: Hassell, Margory; Wiltshire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Great Cheverell (Wiltshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Great Cheverell, 1622-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Cheverell (Wiltshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1622-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Cheverell (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Great Cheverell, 1653-1987
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Cheverell (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Great Cheverell – Genealogy ( 1 )
Inscriptions from monuments of the Merewether family in the churches of Market Lavington, West Lavington, Etchilhampton, St. John Devizes, Chippenham, Marshfield and Calne
Author: Awdry, R. W.

England, Wiltshire, Great Cheverell – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Manor court rolls in Great Cheverell, Wiltshire, 1719-1750
Author: Manor of Great Cheverell. Court (Wiltshire)

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

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

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