Aldbourne Monuments Digital Record

Welcome to the Aldbourne Monuments Digital Record.

These pages have been created as part of St Michael’s Churchyard Heritage Project.

This comprises the monuments in Aldbourne’s two burial grounds, that of St Michael’s churchyard, and the much smaller Zoar Baptist graveyard near St Michael’s church.

Monuments inside St Michael’s church will be added to this Digital Record in due course.

The St Michael’s Churchyard Heritage Project, carried out in 2017 and 2018, seeks to record, as far as possible, the inscriptions on each visible stone, building on the key details captured by the Wiltshire Family History Society, in their survey carried out in the early 1980s. In many cases, these records have been invaluable, where inscriptions have become less clear or have become hidden over the past three decades.

In addition, the Churchyard Heritage Project has sought to build a comprehensive picture of those plots, from 1887, for which there are no gravestones. This has been achieved through the cross-referencing of contemporaneous burial records and the parish registers.

The Aldbourne Monuments Digital Record enables gravestone inscriptions to be located through browsing, with links to photographs of the respective gravestones.

The Aldbourne Monuments Digital Record also has records of plots for which there are no gravestones. These records are based on contemporaneous records, from 1891 onwards.

To search the record click the links for the Digital Record pages below, then enter the desired name or date into the search field at the top of the table.

To see all the fields for a particular grave click the green plus icon to expand the row.

To see an image of the memorial just link the drive.google.com link (only graves with a memorial will have a photograph) .

The data has been divided into three blocks, these are handled separately, so if you don’t find what you’re looking for on one page, search on the others as well. Also bear in mind spelling variations, the record uses the spelling as it was on the monument, not how we might choose to spell now.

Memorials Sql View

This is an experimental page offering a different type of view to the same data, which has been migrated into a database

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Brief History of St Michael’s Churchyard

People have been buried in churchyards for many centuries Although very few visible signs of pre-seventeenth century burials remain, evidence of the history of a churchyard is buried far beneath its more recent occupants. St Michael’s church, as we know it, was built on the site of an earlier Saxon church. It is likely that...

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Churchyard Plan

Churchyard Plan
This colour-coded plot map of St Michael’s Churchyard is based on a plan originally drawn up in about 1926.  

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Churchyard Map

Churchyard Map
This gravestone map adopts the same colour coding, with the addition of “on the ground” features to help with navigation.  

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Digital Record Part 1: Adey to Fowler

Digital Record Part 1: Adey to Fowler
This block of data covers surnames from A through to Fowler To search enter the desired name or date into the search field at the top of the table. To see all the fields for a particular grave click the green plus icon to expand the row. To see an image of the memorial just...

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Digital Record Part 2: Fox to Pettitt

Digital Record Part 2: Fox to Pettitt
This block of data contains names from Fox to Pettitt. (See also Part 1 and Part 3) To search enter the desired name or date into the search field at the top of the table. To see all the fields for a particular grave click the green plus icon to expand the row. To see...

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Digital Record Part 3: Phillips to Z

Digital Record Part 3: Phillips to Z
This block of data covers from Phillips to Z and the graves without a surname. (See also Part 1 and Part 2) To search enter the desired name or date into the search field at the top of the table. To see all the fields for a particular grave click the green plus icon to...

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