West Harnham, Wiltshire Genealogy

England Wiltshire Wiltshire Parishes {Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Chapelry
 * County = Wiltshire
 * Hundred = Cawden and Cadworth
 * Poor Law Union = Alderbury
 * Registration District = Alderbury
 * PRbegin = 1567; For more records see Coombe Bissett
 * BTbegin = 1567
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Salisbury
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 * Rural Deanery = Chalke
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Peculiar of the Prebendal of Coombe and Harnham
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 * Archive = Wiltshire Record Office

Parish History
HARNHAM, WEST (St. George), a parish, in the union of Alderbury, hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, Salisbury and Amesbury, and S. divisions of Wiltshire, 1½ mile (S. W. by W.) from Salisbury.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Wiltshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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