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Hot on the heels of 100in100, we're delighted to announce the release of over 55,000 more English parish baptism records from the county of Wiltshire.
Records predating normal parish collections
Spanning the years 1530 to 1886, the 580,361 baptism records now available comprise transcripts of the registers from over 150 Wiltshire parishes compiled by Wiltshire Family History Society.
The Wiltshire baptisms are very unusual, as some of the earliest records in the collection are 484 years old, predating the vast majority of English parish records.
Start exploring the Wiltshire baptisms
The records begin in 1530, eight years before the Vicar General of England, Thomas Cromwell, ordered all of the nation’s parish churches to keep a record of all baptisms, marriages and burials.
Famous figures in our baptism records
The county of Wiltshire has produced a number of notable individuals, including the architect Sir Christopher Wren, whose baptism record can be found within the collection.
The Wiltshire parish baptisms add to Findmypast’s already extensive collection of Wiltshire records, that includes over 290,000 Wiltshire Memorial Inscription Index records, 67,000 Wiltshire Quarter Session Calendars and 20,593 Wiltshire removal orders.
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