Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Winterbourne Gunner is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1560
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599-1601; 1622

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINTERBOURNE-GUNNER, a parish in Amesbury district, Wilts; 1 mile SSW of Porton r. station, and 4½ NNE of Salisbury. Post town, Salisbury.

Acres, 1,562. Rated property, £1,080. Pop., 150. Houses, 31. The manor belonged, in the time of Henry III., to Henry Delamere; and it took its suffix name of Gunner from his wife Gunnora.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £235. Patron, not reported. The church was repaired in 1810.

There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Winterbourne-Gunner, 1841-1891

Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for Winterbourne-Gunner, 1599-1880 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winterbourne-Gunner (Wiltshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1560-1619 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winterbourne-Gunner (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Winterbourne-Gunner, 1573-1974 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winterbourne-Gunner (Wiltshire)

Taxation

Land tax assessments in Winterbourne-Gunner, Wiltshire 1780-1831 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Amesbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Amesbury
  • Poor Law Union: Amesbury
  • Hundred: Alderbury
  • Province: Canterbury