Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Collingbourne Ducis is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Parish church: St. Andrew
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605
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Collingbourne Ducis Parish Registers
Collingbourne Ducis Marriages 1654 to 1837 Wiltshire Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 12. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and John Sadler. London: Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd., 124, Chancery Lane. 1912. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COLLINGBOURNE-DUCIS, a village and a parish in Pewsey district, Wilts. The village stands on an affluent of the river Avon, 2½ miles NW by N of Ludgers-hall, and 7½ S by E of Savernake r. station; and has a post-office under Marlborough, and a fair on 11 Dec.
The parish comprises 3,381 acres. Real property, with Everleigh, £6,141. Pop., 564. Houses, 113. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the duchy of Lancaster, whence the name Ducis; and passed to the Seymours. Collingbourne Heath and Collingbourne Wood lie east of the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £716. Patron, the Marquis of Ailesbury. The church is ancient but tolerable; and has a tower said to have been built for a dovecot.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
COLLINGBOURN-DUCIS (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Pewsey, hundred of Elstub and Everley, Everley and Pewsey, and S. divisions of Wilts, 9 miles (S. E.) from Pewsey; containing 518 inhabitants. This place was formerly part of the duchy of Lancaster, from which it acquired the adjunct to its name; Henry VIII. alienated it to the Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of Somerset, and Protector of England, upon whose attainder it reverted to the crown, and was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Edward, Earl of Hertford.
The parish is on the road between Andover and Marlborough, and comprises by measurement 3241 acres, the soil of which is generally of a light clayey nature; the surface is varied, rising in several parts into hills of considerable elevation, and the village, situated on a plain, is watered by a small rivulet. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £16. 6. 8., and in the gift of the Marquess of Ailesbury: the tithes have been commuted for £626, and the glebe contains about 58 acres, with a glebe-house.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Gooden Robert, Collingbourne, Wiltshire, maltster, Dec. 4, 1829.
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Pewsey
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Salisbury (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Marlborough
- Poor Law Union: Pewsey
- Hundred: Elstub and Everleigh
- Province: Canterbury