FULL TITLE:  Cirencester Registration District - Marriage Notice Book Volume One - 1837-1856.

The Act which introduced civil registration in 1837 specified that any couple who were not marrying in the Church of England by banns or licence were to give notice of their intended marriage at their local Register Office.  This booklet contains a transcription of the entries of intended marriage notified to the Cirencester Registration District which included Ampney Crucis, Ampney St. Mary or Ashbrook, Ampney St. Peter or Easington, Badgington, Barnsley, Baunton, Brimpsfield, Cirencester, Coates, Colesbourne, Daglingworth, Down Ampney, Driffield, Duntisborne Abbotts, Duntisborne Rouse, Edgeworth, Elkstone, Fairford, Harnhill, Hatherop, Kempsford, Meysey Hampton, North Cerney, Poulton, Preston, Quenington, Rendcombe, Rodmarton, Sapperton, Siddington, Side or Syde, South Cerney, Stratton and Winstone [all Gloucestershire], and Kemble, Marston Meysey, Poole Keynes, Shorncote and Somerford Keynes [all Wiltshire].  Information contained within each notice includes the name, age, condition, occupation, residence and length of residency of each party together with the date the notice was given and the church or building in which the marriage was to be solemnised.  Most marriages, but by no means all, were to take place in nonconformist churches or chapels in the surrounding area.  

FULL TITLE:  Cirencester Registration District - Marriage Notice Book Volume Two - 1857-1871.

The Act which introduced civil registration in 1837 specified that any couple who were not marrying in the Church of England by banns or licence were to give notice of their intended marriage at their local Register Office.  This booklet contains a transcription of the entries of intended marriage notified to the Cirencester Registration District which included Ampney Crucis, Ampney St. Mary or Ashbrook, Ampney St. Peter or Easington, Badgington, Barnsley, Baunton, Brimpsfield, Cirencester, Coates, Colesbourne, Daglingworth, Down Ampney, Driffield, Duntisborne Abbotts, Duntisborne Rouse, Edgeworth, Elkstone, Fairford, Harnhill, Hatherop, Kempsford, Meysey Hampton, North Cerney, Poulton, Preston, Quenington, Rendcombe, Rodmarton, Sapperton, Siddington, Side or Syde, South Cerney, Stratton and Winstone [all Gloucestershire], and Kemble, Marston Meysey, Poole Keynes, Shorncote and Somerford Keynes [all Wiltshire].  Information contained within each notice includes the name, age, condition, occupation, residence and length of residency of each party together with the date the notice was given and the church or building in which the marriage was to be solemnised.  Most marriages, but by no means all, were to take place in nonconformist churches or chapels in the surrounding area.  

FULL TITLE:  Highworth & Swindon Union - Workhouse Births 1866-1914.

A transcription of the surviving birth register of the Highworth & Swindon Union for the years 1866-1914.  The Highworth & Swindon Poor Law Union was formed on 23rd November 1835 and comprised the parishes of Bishopstone, Blunsdon St. Andrew, Broad Blunsdon, Castle Eaton, Chiseldon (including Draycot Foliat), Hannington, Highworth (including Sevenhampton), Inglesham, Liddington, Little Hinton, Rodbourne Cheney, South Marston, Stanton Fitzwarren, Stratton St. Margaret, Swindon, Wanborough and Wroughton [all Wiltshire].

FULL TITLE:  Hungerford Primitive Methodist Circuit - Baptisms 1869-1937.

A Primitive Methodist Circuit based on West Shefford was formed in 1831 and renamed Newbury Circuit in 1845.  The Hungerford Primitive Methodist Circuit was formed in 1869 with the separation of 414 members from the Newbury Circuit.  The Hungerford Circuit had chapels at Eastbury, East Garston, Hungerford, Kintbury, Lambourne, Shalbourn, Weston in the parish of Welford, and West Shefford [all Berkshire] and at Aldbourne, Bagshot, Froxfield, Little Bedwyn, Ramsbury and Witcha [all Wiltshire].  In both Newbury and Hungerford union with the Wesleyans took place in 1937 and, with dwindling membership in both places, they almagamated in 1971 to form the Newbury and Hungerford Methodist Circuit.

FULL TITLE:  Hungerford Wesleyan Methodist Circuit Volume One - Baptisms 1810-1880.

The Hungerford Wesleyan Methodist Circuit was formed in 1810 from the Newbury Circuit and had places of worship at Eastbury, East Garston, Hungerford, Hungerford Newtown, Lambourne, Lambourne Woodlands, Shalbourne and Shefford Woodlands [all Berkshire] and at Aldbourne, Baydon, Burbage, Chilton Foliat, Chisbury, Great Bedwyn, Marlborough, Ramsbury, Woodsend and Wilton [all Wiltshire].  In both Newbury and Hungerford union with the Primitive Methodists took place in 1937 and, with dwindling membership in both places, they amalgamated in 1971 to form the Newbury and Hungerford Methodist Circuit.  This volume contains a transcription of the baptismal entries found in the circuit registers for the period 1810 to 1880 inclusive.

FULL TITLE:  Hungerford Wesleyan Methodist Circuit Volume Two - Baptisms 1881-1937 and Marriages 1886-1897.

The Hungerford Wesleyan Methodist Circuit was formed in 1810 from the Newbury Circuit and had places of worship at Eastbury, East Garston, Hungerford, Hungerford Newtown, Lambourne, Lambourne Woodlands, Shalbourne and Shefford Woodlands [all Berkshire] and at Aldbourne, Baydon, Burbage, Chilton Foliat, Chisbury, Great Bedwyn, Marlborough, Ramsbury, Woodsend and Wilton [all Wiltshire].  In both Newbury and Hungerford union with the Primitive Methodists took place in 1937 and, with dwindling membership in both places, they amalgamated in 1971 to form the Newbury and Hungerford Methodist Circuit.  This volume contains a transcription of the baptismal entries found in the circuit registers for the period 1881 to 1937 inclusive and the marriage entries for the period 1886 to 1897 inclusive .

FULL TITLE:  Swindon Wesleyan Methodist Circuits - Historic Roll 1899-1904.

The Wesleyan Methodist Historic Roll contains the names and addresses of members who donated a guinea each to the Wesleyan Methodist Million Guinea Fund between the years 1899 and 1904.  Also listed are those loved ones who had either died or moved away and for whom members made additional donations 'In Memoriam'.  This booklet contains a transcription of the pages within the Historic Roll relating to the Swindon Bath Road and Swindon Wesley Circuits which included places of worship at Blunsdon, Chiseldon, Cricklade, Gorse Hill, Highworth, Hodson, Liddington, Purton, Swindon (Bath Road), Swindon (Percy Street), Swindon (Princes Street), Swindon (Wesley), Swindon (William Street), Upper Stratton, Wanborough, Wootton Bassett and Wroughton [all Wiltshire], Faringdon, Longcot and Shrivenham [all Berkshire], Clanfield [Oxfordshire] and Lechlade [Gloucestershire].