Tilshead Wiltshire Family History Guide

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Tilshead is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1664 
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1603; 1622

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TILSHEAD, a parish, with a village, in Amesbury district, Wilts; 7½ miles N by E of Wiley r. station, and 9 S by E of Devizes. It has a post-office under Devizes. Acres, 3,990. Real property, £2,933. Pop., 500. Houses, 108 The property is divided among a few. There are several barrows. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £200. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was recently restored and enlarged. There is a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Wiltshire, Tilshead – Church records ( 4 )
The bishop’s transcripts and parish registers of Tilshead, baptisms, 1603-1837
Author: Hassell, Margory; Wiltshire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Tilshead (Wiltshire)

The bishop’s transcripts and parish registers, Tilshead, burials, 1603, 1622-1638, 1664-1837
Author: Trace, Mary Kearns; Hassell, Margory; Wiltshire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Tilshead (Wiltshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Tilshead, 1603-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tilshead (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Tilshead, 1604-1927
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tilshead (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Tilshead – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Tilshead, Wiltshire, England ; christenings, 1603-1870
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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

England, Wiltshire, Tilshead – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Manor court rolls in Tilshead, Wiltshire, 1517-1518
Author: Manor of Tilshead. Court (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Tilshead – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments in Tilshead, Wiltshire 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Land tax assessments in West Coulston, Wiltshire 1780-1884
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Amesbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Wylye
  • Poor Law Union: Amesbury
  • Hundred: Branch and Dole; Whorwellsdown
  • Province: Canterbury