Bishopstone (near Salisbury), Wiltshire Genealogy

England   Wiltshire  Wiltshire Parishes

Parish History
BISHOPSTONE, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Wilton, Wiltshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Avon, 3½ miles SSW of Wilton railway station, and 4½ SW of Salisbury.—The parish includes also the hamlets of Throope, Croncheston, Faulston, Hamston, Netton, and Pitts; and its Post Town is Bishopstone. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts 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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