WILTSHIRE RECORDS
A potpourri of records submitted relating to Wiltshire, England.

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Index of the Poll of the Freeholders of Wiltshire for electing a Knight of the Shire, in the Room of Edward Popham, Esq; Taken at Wilton on the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st of August, 1772 , Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, Esquire, High Sherrif

SURNAME /FIRSTNAME/ ELECTORAL PARISH /RESIDENTIAL PARISH

Self,  James, jnr.  Trowbridge, Trowbridge;
Self,  Robert,  Woodford,  Woodford;
Selfe,  James,  Hilperton,  Hilperton ;
Selfe,  James,  Trowbridge,Trowbridge; 
Selfe, John, Creeklade St Sampson, Ludgrove;

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Pigot's trade directory of 1830 - Wiltshire

name / area   /  page

Self, Edward , Melksham 809 ;
Self, Eliza, Salisbury 811;
Self, Henry,  Lavington 803 ;
Self ,William,  Warminster 815 ;
Selfe, John,   Trowbridge 814;

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MELKSHAM 1575-1735
 
Abreviations: st = seat, adj = adjoining, bt = bought, exch = exchange/d, rec = received, bet = between, gy = gallery. Rdd = paid for recording thereof.
Occupiers of seats are in bold type and these are the names that are indexed.


1592

Henry Newman had a st enlarged with Thomas Selfe by the chancel door

1603

Isaac Selfe had a st for his wife behind Mr. Tappers.

1607

The names of all those that have bt sts in the gy on the north side for women to sit in of the Church Wardens &

Robert Stivens 1 st for exch

William Copnes hath a st for his wife with George Selfes wife for exch George Selfe hath a st for his wife in the back st in the gy for a st where the stairs goes up

Wilmott Shewring hath a st with George Selfes wife in the gy in the back st - fore a st where the stairs standeth

1617

An account of monies rec of Abraham Selfe

Rec of Edward Selfe the younger for 2 sts for his servants on the bench 8d

Rec of Edward Selfe for 1 st for his wife on the south Side bet Robert Selfes wife & Bartholomew Cromwels 4d.

It was agreed upon the court of Sarum & ordered by the court with the consent of the Churchwardens that Thomas Flower of Beanacre for that building of the gy was annoyance to the st of Thomas Flower under the gy whereof in satisfaction of the annoyance of the st we William Aland & Abraham Selfe being Churchwardens have allowed Thomas Flower a st in the foremost st on the north side of the gy.

Rec of Awdry Toylar for 1 st on the bench in the Belfry before John Lewis & Thomas Melksham ôd.
Rec of Abraham Selfe for 1 st with John Awdry on the bench in the belfry 6d.

Rec of John Newman for 1 st with foresaid John Awdry & Abraham Selfe on the bench in the belfry 6d.

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Received from Joy Cooper (cooperjoy@aol.com):
From John Aubrey's 'Brief Lives' (1656-1697)
Isaac Selfe, a wealthy cloathier of Milsham, died in the ninety and second yeare of his age, leaving behind him a numerous offspring: vis
.eighty and three in number.'
I photographed the memorial to this gentleman in Melksham Church., but alas the wording did not come out.

The Selfes of Beanacre and Melksham were probably the ancestors of many of us.They were related  to the Quaker Selfes of Market Lavington who were persecuted.(See book on the Quakers in Wiltshire . Cannot find details at present. My Great Grandmother was a Jane Rebecca Selfe, born in Bradford on Avon in 1841 . I have quite a few details of this somewhere, but have not worked much on this name lately.

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F. Ruth Bailey -  fruthb@primus.ca  submits:

William Selfe, of Bradford, Wilts., married Mary Gregory on the 29th of May,
1814, in the parish church of Frome Selwood, Somerset.

They had 3 children that I know of:
....Francis, born 21 Feb. 1815
..Henry, baptized July 6, 1816
William, baptized 25th Feb. 1818

This information came from the Bishop's Transcripts of Frome, Selwood.

William Selfe, also a watchmaker, married Jane Milborne.  In 1851 they
were in Wareham, Dorset, and the census entry is as follows:
23 North Street
William Selfe 33, Watchmaker, b. Frome, Somerset.
Jane Selfe, 23, b. Yeovil, Somerset
William Milborne Selfe, 2, b. Wareham, Dorset
Mary Jane Selfe, 1 month, b. Wareham, Dorset.

Mary Jane married Alfred Augustus Bailey in 1874 in Westminster,
London, and that began my Bailey family.

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