Staverton Wiltshire Family History Guide

Staverton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Wiltshire, created in 1839 from a chapelry in Trowbridge Ancient Parish.

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1651
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1837

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STAVERTON, a chapelry in Trowbridge district, Wilts; on the river Avon, 2 miles N of Trowbridge r. station. It was constituted in 1839. Post town, Trowbridge. Pop., 580. Houses, 126. Cloth manufacture is carried on. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £100. Patron, the Church Patronage Society.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
Thomas Barnut, of Staverton, & Jinny Witaker 22 Dec. 1707Bratton Wiltshire
  

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Wiltshire, Staverton – Church records ( 3 )
Account book, 1824-1870
Author: Staverton Chapel (Wiltshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

The bishop’s transcripts and parish registers of Staverton, baptisms & burials, 1681-1837
Author: Hassell, Margory; Wiltshire Family History Society; Church of England. Chapelry of Staverton (Wiltshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Staverton, 1837-1880
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Staverton (Wiltshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Trowbridge (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Staverton – Court records ( 1 )
Court records, 1607-1634
Author: Church of England. Peculiar Court (Trowbridge)

Directories

Kelly’s Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and the Isle of Wight 1889

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Melksham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Salisbury (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Potterne
  • Poor Law Union: Melksham
  • Hundred: Melksham
  • Province: Canterbury