January 2025 Journal
The January 2025 journal is now on-line and is available to members, who should log on and select Journals through the Members' Area. 
January
Ramsbury Completes our Parish Register Transcriptions
The parish register transcriptions for Ramsbury baptisms PR238 and burials PR239 have now been published.
These transcriptions are in separate publications, available either as soft back books or as downloads from our on-line shop at GenFair.
The transcriptions for Ramsbury baptisms, marriages and burials have also been incorporated into our compact disc CMB28, completing that compilation, also available from GenFair as a download or physical disc.
This completes a project started over 35 years ago to publish baptism and burial records for the 302 parishes in Wiltshire covering records from as early as 1538 up to 1837 when the national system for recording this type of data was introduced.
Two other new publications have also been produced.
Trowbridge Settlement Examinations 1740-1831 publication number CS045 and Alderton Manor Court Records 1614-1790 publication number CS259.
A full list of all our publications can be found in the Publications leaflet available on our website.
Any of these publications can be order from Genfair (see link above) or by email from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
New Society Chairman
Bob Knightley is our new Chairman
At the Society’s Annual General Meeting held on Saturday 21 st September it was announced that our Chairman David Weaver was stepping down from the role after 16 years. He was thanked for the many years of service that he has given to WFHS.
During his period of office he oversaw our move to the Resource Centre where our library, stock of our publications and our research facilities are based. He along with Cy Cutler and Barbara Fuller were appointed Vice-Presidents of the Society.
Sadly our two other Vice-Presidents, John Hurley and Glenys Bettley have both recently died. Jerry King has rejoined the Executive Committee. He was the Chairman from 2005 to 2008.
Bob Knightley was elected as our new Chairman at the Executive Committee meeting held on September 24 th . Bob joined WFHS in 2016 when he and his wife Lindsey moved to Devizes. Neither of them have Wiltshire ancestors but they have been actively researching their genealogy since the mid 1980s. Bob joined the Executive Committee in 2019 and has been Chairman of the Finance Committee for the last 3 years. He also deals with orders for our publications.
The Society’s Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31March 2024 were presented at the AGM. The report can be found in the Member’s Area of this website.
