Identification:
Object name: family tree
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Family tree relating to the Down, Avery, Gray, Coombs and Mills families of Mere, 1806 onwards
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1806
Date End: 2000
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Down Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 62 cm
Width: 135 cm
Identification:
Object name: indenture
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Copies of indentures and conveyances of property related to the Lackam and Chaffin families of Mere, 1864, 1878 and 1891
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1864
Date End: 1891
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Lackam Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 49.5 cm
Width: 74 cm
Identification:
Object name: family tree
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Family tree relating to the Harding family of Mere, 16th century to 20th century
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1500
Date End: 1999
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Harding Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 55.5 cm
Width: 500 cm
Identification:
Object name: map
Classification: environment
Classification: maps
Brief Description: Three tracing-paper Enclosure Award maps and two simple printed maps showing lands owned by Woodlands Manor near Mere in both 1812 and 1848
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1812
Date End: 1848
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 60.5 cm
Width: 85.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: family tree
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Family tree relating to the Walton family of Mere, 1801 – 1968
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1801
Date End: 1968
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Walton Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 90 cm
Width: 61 cm
Identification:
Object name: family tree
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Family tree relating to the Cooper family of Ablington, Wiltshire, 1437 – 1887
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1437
Date End: 1887
Place:
Parish: Figheldean
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Cooper Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 75 cm
Width: 62 cm
Identification:
Object name: family tree
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Family tree relating to the Twogood family of Mere, Wiltshire, 1564 – 1900
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1564
Date End: 1900
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Twogood Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 52 cm
Width: 130 cm
Identification:
Object name: family tree
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Family tree relating to the Harding family of Mere, Wiltshire, 1600 – 1960
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1600
Date End: 1960
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Harding Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 42 cm
Width: 73.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: family tree
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Family tree relating to the Thynne family, (including Marquess of Bath), c. 455 – 1992
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 455 AD
Date End: 1992
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Thynne Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 94.4 cm
Width: 44 cm
Identification:
Object name: family tree
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Family trees relating to various Mere families including the Fords, Maidments, Sheppards, Scotts, etc, 18th century to 20th century
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1700
Date End: 1999
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Ford Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 43.5 cm
Width: 60 cm
Identification:
Object name: family tree
Classification: personalia
Brief Description: Family tree relating to the Cogan (Coggan) family of Mere, 17th century to 20th century
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1600
Date End: 1999
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Cogan Family
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 43.5 cm
Width: 84 cm
Identification:
Object name: page proofs
Classification: local history
Title: Mere: A Wiltshire Town
Brief Description: Four large page proofs, possibly from Country Life, from a chapter ‘Mere: A Wiltshire Town’, c. 1970’s
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1970
Date End: 1979
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 40
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 60.5 cm
Width: 90 cm
Identification:
Object name: notes
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Notes relating to the Butt family of Mere, undated, 20th century
Production:
Date:
Date Begin: 1900
Date End: 1999
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Butt Family
Object location: Box 37
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: register
Classification: society
Classification: government
Title: Westbury Constituency 1993 Draft Register Of Electors
Brief Description: Copy of the Mere polling district, Westbury Constituency 1993 Draft Register Of Electors
Production:
Date: 1993
Person:
Person Name: Rawlinson, D, R, J
Person Role: author
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: register
Classification: society
Classification: government
Title: Westbury Constituency 1982 Register Of Electors
Brief Description: Copy of the Mere polling district, Westbury Constituency 1982 Register Of Electors
Production:
Date: 1982
Person:
Person Name: Colquhoun, F, W
Person Role: author
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: booklet
Classification: local history
Title: Abstracts of the Inquisitions Post Mortem Relating to Wiltshire From the Reign of King Henry III, Part III
Brief Description: Booklet, ‘Abstracts of the Inquisitions Post Mortem Relating to Wiltshire From the Reign of King Henry III, Part III’, published by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, December 1904
Production:
Date: 12.1904
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 37
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: booklet
Classification: local history
Title: Abstracts of the Inquisitions Post Mortem Relating to Wiltshire From the Reign of King Henry III, Part V
Brief Description: Booklet, ‘Abstracts of the Inquisitions Post Mortem Relating to Wiltshire From the Reign of King Henry III, Part V’, published by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, December 1906
Production:
Date: 12.1906
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 37
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: booklet
Classification: local history
Title: Abstracts of Wiltshire, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Charles I, Part VIII
Brief Description: Booklet, ‘Abstracts of Wiltshire, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Charles I, Part VIII’, published by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, June 1901
Production:
Date: 6.1901
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 37
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: notes
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Notes and transcriptions of the wills, inventories and other details of various families from Mere, 30th August 1993
Production:
Date: 30.8.1993
Person:
Person Name: Tighe, Michael
Person Role: author
Association:
Person:
Person Name: Mead, John
Person Role: weaver
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 37
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: booklet
Classification: local history
Title: Wiltshire Notes and Queries
Brief Description: Orange booklet, ‘Wiltshire Notes and Queries’, with reference to the Goddard family of Mere, December 1902
Production:
Date: 12.1902
Person:
Person Name: Schomberg, Arthur
Person Role: editor
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Goddard Family
Object location: Box 37
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: list
Classification: local history
Brief Description: A list of the names of pews and inhabitants of Stourton and Gasper church, 18th century
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1700
Date End: 1799
Place:
Parish: Stourton with Gasper
County: Wiltshire
Locality Type: church
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: list
Classification: local history
Brief Description: A list of inhabitants from Mere and their land tax details, 1854
Association:
Date:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 42 cm
Width: 29.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: register
Classification: society
Classification: government
Title: Register of Electors
Brief Description: A register of Mere electors in force between 16th February 1970 and 15th February 1971
Production:
Date: 1971
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Wiltshire County Council
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 16.2.1970
Date End: 15.2.1971
Person:
Person Name: Harries, R, P
Person Role: electoral registration officer
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 35 cm
Width: 25 cm
Identification:
Object name: list
Classification: local history
Brief Description: A list of Mere inhabitants and payment of possible taxes, 1628
Association:
Date:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: census
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Photocopy of the 1650 census for Mere and a draft transcription of the census by Michael Tighe
Production:
Date: 1650
Person:
Person Name: Tighe, Michael
Person Role: author
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 36 cm
Depth: 29.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: letter
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Correspondence between Michael Tighe and other professionals about his draft transcription of the 1650 census, draft transcription and final version, 1998
Production:
Date: 1998
Person:
Person Name: Tighe, Michael
Person Role: author
Association:
Date:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Wiltshire Family History Society
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: list
Classification: local history
Brief Description: List, sourced from the Wiltshire Record Office, of Mere ale house keepers from 1756
Production:
Person:
Person Name: Tighe, Michael
Person Role: author
Association:
Date:
Person:
Person Name: Perman, John
Person Role: innkeeper
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Locality Type: inn
Site Name: The George
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Wiltshire Record Office
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: list
Classification: local history
Title: Voters On Parliamentary Register 1819
Brief Description: Typed list, ‘Voters On Parliamentary Register 1819’, voters from Mere and Zeals
Association:
Date:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: notes
Classification: local history
Title: A Later Doomsday
Brief Description: Twenty nine pages (and duplicate copies) of notes and maps relating to the valuation of properties in Mere, found in the records of the Inland Revenue Valuation of 1911 and carried out between 1909 and 1911
Production:
Person:
Person Name: Tighe, Michael
Person Role: author
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1909
Date End: 1911
Person:
Person Name: Edmunds, William, T
Person Role: registrar
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Inland Revenue
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: photocopy
Classification: trade and professions
Brief Description: Photocopies from various trade directories showing lists of names and occupations from Mere, 1830, 1838, 1842, 1865 and c. 1920’s or 1930’s
Association:
Date:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Pigot’s Commercial Directory
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: photocopy
Classification: trade and professions
Brief Description: Photocopies from Kelly’s trade directories showing lists of names and occupations from Mere, 1848 – 1939
Production:
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Kelly’s Directory
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1848
Date End: 1939
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: photocopy
Classification: trade and professions
Brief Description: Photocopies from Harrod’s trade directory showing lists of names and occupations from Mere, 1865
Production:
Date: 1865
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Harrod’s Directory
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 29.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: list
Classification: trade and professions
Brief Description: Lists from various 19th century census’, showing named occupations practised in Mere, 19th century
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1841
Date End: 1871
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 21.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: photocopy
Classification: trade and professions
Brief Description: Photocopy of list from 1831 census, Zeals
Association:
Date:
Place:
Parish: Zeals
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 21.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: transcript
Classification: trade and professions
Brief Description: Transcript from the 1843-1844 Parliamentary Gazetteer and related correspondence between Michael Tighe and Jack Pike
Production:
Person:
Person Name: Tighe, Michael
Person Role: author
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1843
Date End: 1844
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: article
Classification: local history
Title: Copy of a Manuscript in the Possession of Sir Walter Grove, Baronet
Brief Description: Photocopy of an article in an unknown book, ‘Copy of a Manuscript in the Possession of Sir Walter Grove, Baronet’, which includes lists of inhabitants in the Mere hundred, 17th century
Production:
Date:
Date Begin: 1600
Date End: 1699
Association:
Person:
Person Name: Grove, Walter, Sir
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 29.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: article
Classification: local history
Title: A Hundred Years Ago
Brief Description: Copy of an article by Michael Tighe for Mere Parish Magazine, 1995, where extracts from the magazine of a hundred years ago will be reported
Production:
Date: 1995
Person:
Person Name: Tighe, Michael
Person Role: author
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 10.1895
Date End: 3.1896
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Mere Parish Magazine
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 21.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: notes
Classification: local history
Brief Description: List of Duchy lands and associated people around eighteenth and nineteenth century Mere, taken from documents held at the Wiltshire Record Office, 8th March 1995
Production:
Date: 8.3.1995
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1780
Date End: 1881
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Wiltshire Record Office
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: document
Classification: local history
Title: Mere Town Land Tax Collection Book
Brief Description: Photocopy of the 1836 ‘Mere Town Land Tax Collection Book’, held at the public record office, (now the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre), Chippenham
Association:
Date:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 42 cm
Width: 30 cm
Identification:
Object name: letter
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Documents and a letter from Pam Slocombe of the Wiltshire Buildings Record relating to the age and use of the barn at Parsonage Farm, Mere, 1999
Production:
Date: 22.10.1999
Person:
Person Name: Slocombe, Pam
Person Role: author
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 1400
Date End: 1499
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Locality Type: barn
Site Name: Parsonage Farm
Organisation:
Organisation Name: Wiltshire Buildings Record
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 20.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: document
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Photocopy of an abstract for land, tithes, rent and other information belonging to Mere Parsonage, 1663
Production:
Date: 1663
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Locality Type: parsonage
Site Name: Mere Parsonage
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 26 cm
Width: 36 cm
Identification:
Object name: photocopy
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Photocopied land valuation document with information about rents and tithes, Mere, undated
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: document
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Photocopy of a document relating to land and rent concerning Randolph Baron, former deputy receiver of Dorset, gentleman of Mere, 1620
Production:
Date: 1620
Association:
Person:
Person Name: Baron, Randolph
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 36.5 cm
Width: 25.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: document
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Photocopy of a document relating to land values near Mere, c.1596
Production:
Date: 1596
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 36 cm
Width: 25.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: document
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Photocopy of a document listing properties and land near Mere, c.1531 – 1541
Production:
Date:
Date Begin: 1531
Date End: 1541
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 30 cm
Width: 25.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: document
Classification: local history
Title: The Presentment of the Homage for the Manor of the Revd and Worshipful Dr Thomas Green, Dean of the Cathedral Church of Sarum held at Mere on the 10th Day of August 1758
Brief Description: Photocopy of a document, ‘….Homage….of the Revd..Dr Thomas Green, Dean of the Cathedral Church of Sarum…’, 10th August 1758
Production:
Date: 10.8.1758
Association:
Person:
Person Name: Green, Thomas, Dr
Person Role: dean
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 30 cm
Width: 25.5 cm
Identification:
Object name: document
Classification: local history
Title: A Terrier of the Parsonage of Mere in the County of Wilts now held by William Chafin Grove Esq under a lease for the Sum of twenty one Year’s granted by the Revd Dr Thomas Greene as Dean of Salisbury
Brief Description: Photocopy of a document, houses and lands under the parsonage of Mere, leased by William Chafin Grove, 29th November 1771
Production:
Date: 29.11.1771
Association:
Person:
Person Name: Chafin-Grove, William
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 36 cm
Identification:
Object name: document
Classification: local history
Title: History of Mere
Brief Description: Photocopy of pages from an unnamed book, possibly the ‘History of Mere’, listing those inhabitants who contributed towards ‘many poore Christians lately taken by the Turkish Pirates’, 20th November 1670
Production:
Date: 20.11.1670
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: list
Classification: local history
Title: The Monthly Assessments for the Relief of Ireland, Raised in the Division of Warminster, 1648
Brief Description: Photocopy of pages from an unnamed document listing those in the Mere district who gave relief funds for Ireland, 1648
Production:
Date: 1648
Association:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: list
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Photocopy of pages from an unnamed document, including a list of taxpayers in the Mere area for the benevolence of 1545 and for the subsidy of 1576
Association:
Date:
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Identification:
Object name: list
Classification: local history
Brief Description: Photocopy of pages from an polling document, a list of persons entitled to vote living in the southern or Wilton Division of Wiltshire, concentrating on the Mere area, between 7th November 1885 – 1st January 1887
Association:
Date:
Date Begin: 7.11.1885
Date End: 1.1.1887
Place:
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Event:
Event Type: election
Object location: Box 36
Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm