Monkton Deverill, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Monkton Deverill is a chapelry of Longbridge Deverill with Crockerton Ancient Parish in Wiltshire.

Alternative names: Deverill Monckton, Monkton Deverill

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1695
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608; 1613; 1622

Nonconformists include:

Parishes adjacent to Monkton Deverill

• Pertwood
• East Knoyle
• Kingston Deverill
• Brixton Deverill
• West Knoyle

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DEVERILL-MONCKTON, a parish in Mere district, Wilts; on the Deverill rivulet, 4¼ miles NE of Mere, and 5¾ SW of Heytesbury r. station. Post town, Deverill-Kingston, under Warminster. Acres, 1,735. Real property, with Deverill-Kingston, £3,875. Pop., 180. Houses, 42. The property is divided among a few. A monastery, subordinate to Bee abbey, was founded here before 1086. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Deverill-Longbridge, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is good. White, ejected by Cromwell, and afterwards a physician, was incumbent.

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

Parish Registers

Marriages at Monkton Deverill 1749-1812

Marriages Out of Parish

Details	Place of Marriage
John Cousins, of Munxton Deveril, & Jane Perrat, of M. 5 July 1702	Mere
Daniel Carpenter & Jane Morgan, both of Monkton Deverill 31 Aug. 1746	Mere

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Monckton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Monckton-Deverill, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Monckton – Church records ( 4 )
Baptisms of 13 parishes, Mere and S.W. Wiltshire
Author: Wiltshire Family History Society

Bishop’s transcripts for Deverill-Monckton, 1608-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Deverill-Monckton (Wiltshire)

Marriages at Monkton Deverill, 1749-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Deverill-Monckton (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Deverill-Monckton, 1695-1980
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Deverill-Monckton (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Monckton – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in Deverill-Monckton, Wiltshire 1780-1876
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

FamilySearch Historical Records

Directories

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Wiltshire
• Civil Registration District: Mere
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
• Diocese: Salisbury
• Rural Deanery: Wylye
• Poor Law Union: Mere
• Hundred: South Damerham
• Province: Canterbury