Littleton Drew, Wiltshire Genealogy

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Guide to Littleton Drew, Wiltshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
LITTLETON-DREW (All Saints), or LITTLETON-ST. ANDREW, a parish in Chippenham district in the county of Wilts (Wiltshire). It is located in the union and hundred of Chippenham, Chippenham and Calne.

Littleton-Drew is adjacent to Gloucester and 8 miles NW of Chippenham town and 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:

Census records
The 1841 Census returns for Littleton Drew are missing.

Census records from 1851 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 220983.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain