Stratton St Margaret Wiltshire Family History Guide

Stratton St Margaret is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.

Alternative names: St Margaret Stratton

Other places in the parish include: Upper Stratton, Lower Stratton, and Kingsdown.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1608
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Particular Baptist, and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STRATTON-ST. MARGARET, a village and a parish in Highworth district, Wilts. The village stands near the Great Western railway, 2¾ miles NE of Swindon; and has a post-office under Swindon.

The parish includes Upper Stratton tything, contains Highworth workhouse, and comprises 2,620 acres. Real property, £9,980. Pop., 1,642. Houses, 320. The property is much sub-divided. An alien priory cell was founded in 1066; and was given, by Henry VI., to King’s College, Cambridge.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £216. Patron, Merton College, Oxford. The church is good.

There are chapels for Independents and Baptists, and charities £22.

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, Stratton-St. Margaret – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Stratton-St. Margaret, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, Stratton-St. Margaret – Church history ( 1 )
The Baptists of Stratton Green : a brief survey of the history of the church
Author: Fuller, F. W. T.

England, Wiltshire, Stratton-St. Margaret – Church records ( 4 )
The Baptists of Stratton Green : a brief survey of the history of the church
Author: Fuller, F. W. T.

Bishop’s transcripts for Stratton-St. Margaret, 1607-1863
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stratton-St. Margaret (Wiltshire)

Church records, 1870-1912
Author: Baptist Church (Stratton-St. Margaret, Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Swindon-St. Barnabas, 1890-1906
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Swindon-St. Barnabas (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Stratton-St. Margaret – Court records ( 1 )
Manor court rolls in Stratton, Wiltshire, 1549-1764
Author: Manor of Stratton-St. Margaret. Court (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Stratton-St. Margaret – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
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

Poor law records, 1866-1914
Author: Highworth and Swindon Union (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Stratton-St. Margaret – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in Stratton-St. Margaret, Wiltshire 1780-1881
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Highworth
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Perpetual Vicar of Corsham
  • 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