Knook, Wiltshire Genealogy

England   Wiltshire  Wiltshire Parishes

Parish History
Knook, a parish, with a village, in Warminster district in the county of Wiltshire and is also in the hundred of Heytesbury, Warminster.

Knook is located by the river Wiley, Old Ditch way and the Somerset and Weymouth railway. It is located 1 mile SE of Heytesbury railway station.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Knook parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Wiltshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain