Salisbury St Martin, Wiltshire Genealogy

England   Wiltshire  Wiltshire Parishes

Parish History
Salisbury (or New Sarum). A parish and municipal border, city, and county town of Wiltshire, on the Upper Avon, at confluence of the Bourne and the Nadder and Wiley, 28 miles W. of Winchester and 83 SW. of London by rail. The city comprises the parish of St. Edmund, part of St. Martin's,which is a vicarage, and the parish of St. Thomas, which is a perpetual currency. The extraparochial district of the Cathedral Close is the grammar school for the education of eight boys.There are places of worship for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics.

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, 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain