Overton, Wiltshire Genealogy

EnglandWiltshire Wiltshire Parishes

Parish History
OVERTON (St. Michaels), a village in Marlborough district, and a parish partly also in Pewsey district in the county of Wiltshire (Wilts). It is located in the union of Marlborough, partly in the hundred of Elstub and Everley, but chiefly in that of Selkley, Marlborough and Ramsbury.

The parish comprises the township of West Overton and the Tything of Lockeridge, in Marlborough district and the chapelry of Alton-Priors, and Overton-Heath and Clatford-Park.

The village stands on the river Kennet, 4 miles SW of Marlborough 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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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.

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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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