Free Online Records

The best free resources for anyone with relations from Wiltshire, including records of quarter sessions, trade directories, and indexes to births, marriages and deaths

Trade Directories

w bit.ly/specialwiltshire

The University of Leicester’s site

Special Collections Online includes Kelly’s directories for Wiltshire from 1867, 1898, 1903 and 1911, as well as a Pigot’s volume from 1822.

Parish Registers

w wiltshire-opc.org.uk/ genealogy

This volunteer-run website holds transcribed genealogical information from parishes across the county. You need to become a member of the site to access the data, but registration is free.

Victoria County History

w history.ac.uk/research/ victoria-county-history/ county-histories-progress/wiltshire

Explore the VCH’s many volumes for Wiltshire.

BMD Indexes

w wiltshirebmd.org.uk

Volunteers have been working with the local registration service to produce indexes to Wiltshire births, marriages and deaths back to 1837.

Records Of Quarter Sessions

w wiltshirerecordsociety.org.uk

Here you can download digitised copies of the society’s publications, which vary from accounts of parliamentary garrisons, to Wiltshire quarter sessions and a book on tradesmen in 17th-century Wiltshire.