Category: Gazetteer

A geographical dictionary providing reference information about places and place names in Warminster and other civil parishes in the surrounding area.

At Marsh Alley, Warminster, At The Time Of The 1881 Census

Sunday 3rd April 1881

The 1881 Census for Warminster, taken on Sunday 3rd April 1881, records details for some residences at Marsh Alley (in the ecclesiastical parish of Christ Church, Warminster).

(The census enumerator recorded them between 19 and 24 Marsh Street).

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Number of schedule: 64.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 20 Marsh Alley.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Thomas Holton.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 45.
Rank, profession or occupation: Plasterer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Bessie Holton.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 42.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Horningsham, Wiltshire.

Name: William Holton.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 15.
Rank, profession or occupation: Plasterer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Henry Holton.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 13.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural Labourer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Thomas Holton.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 12.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: John Holton.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 6.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Julia Holton.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 4.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Albert Holton.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 5 months.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Alfred Rowe.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 14.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural Labourer.
Where born: Horningsham, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 65.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 20 Marsh Alley [same address as above].
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Harry Rowe.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 23.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural Labourer.
Where born: Horningsham, Wiltshire.

Name: Jane Rowe.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 23.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Horningsham, Wiltshire.

Name: Charles Henry Rowe.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 1.
Rank, profession or occupation:
Where born: Crockerton, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: – .
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 21 Marsh Alley.
House Uninhabited.

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Number of schedule: 66.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 22 Marsh Alley.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Elizabeth Fricker.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Widow.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 66.
Rank, profession or occupation: Retired dairywoman.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 67.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 23 Marsh Alley.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: George Bigwood.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 61.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural Labourer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Jane Bigwood.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 50.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Sutton Veny, Wiltshire.

Name: William Bigwood.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 13.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural Labourer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Living At Butts Yard, Warminster, At The Time Of The 1881 Census

Sunday 3rd April 1881

The 1881 Census for Warminster, taken on Sunday 3rd April 1881, records details for those living at Butts Yard, Warminster.

The census enumerator listed Butts Yard between No.6 George Street and No.7 George Street, Warminster.

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Number of schedule: 106.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Butts Yard.
House uninhabited.

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Number of schedule: 106.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Butts Yard.
Houses habited: 1.

Name: Samuel Brown.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Widower.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 62.
Rank, profession or occupation: Tailor.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 107.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Butts Yard.
Houses habited: 1.

Name: Elizabeth Minor.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Widow.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 71.
Rank, profession or occupation: Formerly domestic servant.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 108.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Butts Yard.
Houses habited: 1.

Name: Miriam Haskell.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Widow.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 62.
Rank, profession or occupation: Office attendant, charwoman.
Where born: Frome, Somerset.

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Number of schedule: 109.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Butts Yard.
Houses habited: 1.

Name: Mary Ann Lidbury.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Widow.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 75.
Rank, profession or occupation: Tailor’s wife.
Where born: London.

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Number of schedule: 110.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Butts Yard.
Houses habited: 1.

Name: Charles Flower.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 61.
Rank, profession or occupation: Goods Agent’s Clerk.
Where born: Bradley, Somerset.

Name: Eliza Flower.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 60.
Rank, profession or occupation:
Where born: Bradley, Somerset.
This person is recorded as deaf.

Living At Temple Row, Boreham, Warminster, At The Time Of The 1881 Census

Sunday 3rd April 1881

The 1881 Census for Warminster, taken on Sunday 3rd April 1881, records details for those living at Temple Row, Boreham, Warminster.

Number of schedule: 4.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 44 Temple Row.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: William Blake.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 73.
Rank, profession or occupation: Shepherd.
Where born: Deptford, Wiltshire.

Name: Sarah Blake.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 71.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Layton, Somerset.

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Number of schedule: 5.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 45 Temple Row.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Eliza King.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 58.
Rank, profession or occupation: Needlewoman.
Where born: Bishopstrow, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: – .
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 46 Temple Row.
House uninhabited.

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Number of schedule: 6.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 47 Temple Row.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Edwin Bowles.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 37.
Rank, profession or occupation: Shepherd.
Where born: Garvel, Dorset.

Name: Elizabeth Bowles.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 53.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Alton Priors, Wiltshire.

Name: Sarah Masters.
Relation to head of family: Niece.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 28.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Alton Priors, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 7.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: 48 Temple Row.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: William Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 52.
Rank, profession or occupation: Farm Labourer.
Where born: Bishopstrow, Wiltshire.

Name: Rhoda Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 45.
Rank, profession or occupation: Laundress.
Where born: Bishopstrow, Wiltshire.

Name: Mary Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 19.
Rank, profession or occupation: Laundress.
Where born: Boreham, Wiltshire.

Name: Emily Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 28.
Rank, profession or occupation: Cook, domestic servant.
Where born: Boreham, Wiltshire.

Name: Edward Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 17.
Rank, profession or occupation: Farm labourer.
Where born: Boreham, Wiltshire.

Name: Frank Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 15.
Rank, profession or occupation: Farm labourer.
Where born: Boreham, Wiltshire.

Name: Harry Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 12.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Boreham, Wiltshire.

Name: Frederick Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 11.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Boreham, Wiltshire.

Name: Fanny Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 8.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Boreham, Wiltshire.

Name: Lucy Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 4.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Boreham, Wiltshire.

Name: George Witchell.
Relation to head of family: Brother.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 55.
Rank, profession or occupation: Farm labourer.
Where born: Bishopstrow, Wiltshire.

Living At Balks Garden, Warminster, At The Time Of The 1881 Census

Sunday 3rd April 1881

The 1881 Census for Warminster, taken on Sunday 3rd April 1881, records details for those living at Balks Garden, Warminster.

The census enumerator listed Balks Garden between Smallbrook Farm and Smallbrook Road, Warminster.

Number of schedule: 69.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Balks Garden.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: John Garratt.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 73.
Rank, profession or occupation: Gardener.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Elizabeth Garratt.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 62.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: John Garratt.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 50.
Rank, profession or occupation: Gardener.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Living At Smith’s Yard, Warminster, At The Time Of The 1881 Census

Sunday 3rd April 1881

The 1881 Census for Warminster, taken on Sunday 3rd April 1881, records details for those living at Smith’s Yard, Portway, Warminster.

The census enumerator listed Smith’s Yard between 95 Portway and 96 Portway, Warminster.

Number of schedule: 73.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Sarah Hayter.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Widow.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 47.
Rank, profession or occupation: Charwoman.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Lucy Hayter.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 14.
Rank, profession or occupation: Silk worker.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Albert Hayter.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 12.
Rank, profession or occupation: Errand boy.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Kate Hasyter.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 9.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Ada Hayter.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 7.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 74.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Edward Farley.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Widower.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 48.
Rank, profession or occupation: Sawyer.
Where born: Heytesbury, Wiltshire.

Name: Annie Farley.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 20.
Rank, profession or occupation: Servant.
Where born: Frome, Somerset.

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Number of schedule: 75.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Francis Giles.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Widower.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 48.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural Labourer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Matilda Giles.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 18.
Rank, profession or occupation: Factory worker. Silk.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Francis H. Giles.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 14.
Rank, profession or occupation: Tap-boy.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: George W. Giles.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 8.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 76.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Henry Fowles.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Widower.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 50.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural labourer.
Where born: Knook, Wiltshire.

Name: Fanny Fowles.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 23.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Henry Fowles.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 15.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural labourer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 77.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Robert Moody.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 26.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural labourer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Ellen Moody.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 40.
Rank, profession or occupation: (labourer’s wife).
Where born: Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire.

Name: Jane Moody.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 8.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Elizabeth Moody.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 5.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Rose Moody.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 1.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 78.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Richard Fear.
Relation to head of family: Lodger.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 34.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural labourer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 79.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: George Fear.
Relation to head of family: Lodger.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 36.
Rank, profession or occupation: Agricultural labourer.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 80.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Henry Fry.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 40.
Rank, profession or occupation: Mason’s labourer.
Where born: Codford St. Peter,. Wiltshire.

Name: Sarah Fry.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 26.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Crockerton, Wiltshire.

Name: William Fry.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 8.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Sarah J. Fry.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 5.
Rank, profession or occupation: Scholar.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Henry Fry.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: Under 11 months.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 81.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: James Hughes.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 68.
Rank, profession or occupation: Cutler.
Where born: Market Lavington, Wiltshire.

Name: Mary A. Hughes.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 65.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Covert, Somerset.

Name: James Hughes.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: Widower.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 38.
Rank, profession or occupation: Cutler.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Elizabeth Hughes.
Relation to head of family: Granddaughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 18.
Rank, profession or occupation: Silk worker.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: 82.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Alfred Barrett,
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 59.
Rank, profession or occupation: House painter.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Eliza Barrett.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 60.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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Number of schedule: – .
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
House Uninhabited.

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Number of schedule: 83.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Smith’s Yard.
Houses Inhabited: 1.

Name: Jane Grant.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 40.
Rank, profession or occupation: Maltster’s wife (husband in Wales).
Where born: Chitterne, Wiltshire.

Name: Rhoda Grant.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 16.
Rank, profession or occupation: Servant.
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Mary Grant.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 13.
Rank, profession or occupation: Factory operative. Silk.
Where born: Chitterne, Wiltshire.

Name: James Grant.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 12.
Rank, profession or occupation: Butcher boy.
Where born: Chitterne, Wiltshire.

Name: Anne Grant.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: – .
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 4.
Rank, profession or occupation: – .
Where born: Upton Lovell, Wiltshire.

The History Of Warminster – Quakers

The Rev. John J. Daniell, in his book The History Of Warminster, published in 1879, noted:

Quakers
Several quakers lived in the town during the active times of the clothing trade. Some of the Whittuck, Buckler, and Butler families were of that persuasion. They had a meeting-house in Common Close, afterwards a malt-house. William Penn preached in Warminster, and George Wansey became a convert on the spot. The last Quaker in the town was George Gardiner, who died 1795, but two persons were brought from a distance, and buried in the little lonely grave-yard at Leynes [Laynes], near Bugley within the memory of men yet living. The grave-yard is fifteen yards long, and seven wide, enclosed within a low wall, near a few trees, beside the old pack-horse track from Bugley to Cley Hill. Two mounds alone remain. George Wansey was buried there in 1699. The register of Quaker burials extends from 10 May, 1696 to 1727. Many burials of Quakers are entered in the Church Register also. £100 are left on trust for the support of the Quaker interest in Warminster.

The Buries

John J. Daniell’s book The History Of Warminster was first published in 1879. Chapter II, titled The Romans, includes the following:

The Buries (so named from standing on a large Barrow) is a house and grounds belonging to the Astley family, partly in Warminster parish and partly in Bishopstrow. It was decidedly a Roman station; part of the agger is still visible, and at various times much Roman pottery has been dug up, wherever the spade broke the soil, deeply embedded in black mould. In 1792, Richard Archer and John Arnold, while employed in levelling a high ridge and digging a ditch at the Buries discovered several pieces of iron armour, much Roman ware, and two large urns, one of which contained several thousand Roman coins, a peck in measure, chiefly of the middle and small brass, of all ages of the Roman Empire from Tiberius, viz., Claudius, Vitellius, Domitian, Antoninus Pius, Commodus, Alexander Severus, Lucius Tacitus, Carausius, Alectus, Carinus, Maxentius, Maximinus, Constantine, Constans, Magnentius, Victorinus; and two female heads, Salonina, wife of Gallienus, and a Julia. A lump of these coins, firmly rusted together, in good preservation, was in the possession of Mr. Halliday, of Warminster, but cannot now be found.

A Crossing Between Bevan’s Lane And Bishopstrow Road, Boreham, Warminster

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 5th January 1878:

Monthly meeting of the Warminster Local Board, held on Friday 4th January 1878 –

“On the motion of Mr. Bleeck, seconded by Mr. Barnden, it was resolved (if permission of the County Surveyor could be obtained, and supposing the County Surveyor would not himself do the work), the Board put a stone crossing on the road at Boreham from Bevan’s Lane to the Bishopstrow Road. Such a crossing, it was forcibly argued, was much needed.”

Danny Howell writes [2023]: “This was referring to a crossing for the area we now call Boreham Crossroads. Bevan’s Lane was the track leading north from the crossroads – this part of Bevan’s Lane is now occupied by the southern end of what is now Woodcock Road. Also facing the crossroads was the entrance to Boreham Farm. Mrs. Mary Christie Bevan is listed as the farmer at Boreham Farm, in the Boreham commercial entries of the Post Office Directory 1875.”

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