Combe Genealogical Records
Combe Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Transcriptions of records from baptism registers. They document parents' names, date of baptism and/or birth, residence, occupations and more.
Baptism registers are the primary source of birth details before 1837, though are useful to the present. They record a child's name, parents' names and date of birth and/or baptism.
A growing index of births registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
Transcriptions of Wiltshire baptisms covering around 50% of Anglican places of worship.
Combe Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
A searchable transcript of marriages solemnised at Combe between 1560 and 1812.
Transcriptions of records from baptism registers. They may list residence, marital status, witnesses and more.
Brief notes on marriages that occurred at the church between 1755 and 1836.
A searchable transcript of marriages solemnised at Combe between 1560 and 1812.
Combe Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Transcriptions of records from burial registers. Records document an individual's date of death and/or burial, age residence and more.
An index to registers of burials for people buried at the church.
A growing index of deaths registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
Transcriptions of around 1,800 records from Quaker death records. They include ages, relations, residences and more.
Combe Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
An index to names listed in a document listing those liable for militia service.
A transcription of records naming those who had taxes levied against them for the privilege of owning a hearth.
The 1901 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
Newspapers Covering Combe
A regional newspaper covering the counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. It covers local and national news, family announcements, business news, legal proceedings and more.
A liberal newspaper, containing news and family notices, such as births, marriages and death.
A record of births, marriages, deaths, legal, political, organisation and other news from the Wiltshire area. Original pages of the newspaper can be viewed and located by a full text search.
Fully text-searchable articles from a regional newspaper covering the Wiltshire district. It includes family announcements, obituaries, court proceedings, business notices and more.
A regional newspaper covering the counties of Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire Hampshire and Berkshire. It covers local and national news, family announcements, business news, legal proceedings and more.
Combe Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
An index to 90,000 wills, including name, occupation, year of probate, residence and more.
An index to all ecclesiastical wills for Wiltshire, civil wills to 1887, nuncupative wills and inquisitions postmortem.
A searchable index connected to images surviving wills and probate documents for the Commissary Court of Bishop of Winchester. These records can help trace families back to the late 15th century.
An index to estate administrations performed by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The index covers the southern two thirds of England & Wales, but may also contain entries for northerners.
Combe Immigration & Travel Records
Abstracts of over 20,000 removal orders, which provided legal backing to move people to their parish of settlement.
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
A full index of passenger lists for vessels arriving in the UK linked to original images. Does not include lists from vessels sailing from European ports. Early entries can be brief, but later entries may include dates of births, occupations, home addresses and more. Useful for documenting immigration.
An index to and images of documents recording over 1.65 million passengers who arrived in Victoria, Australia, including passengers whose voyage was paid for by others.
Details on over 600,000 non-British citizens arriving in England. Often includes age and professions. Useful for discerning the origin of immigrants.
Combe Military Records
Transcriptions of war diaries covering 15 regiments during World War I & II. The records detail war action and record names, generally those of officers.
Photographs and transcriptions of monuments commemorating those who lost their lives in battle.
An account of the regiment's part in the South African War.
An index to names listed in a document listing those liable for militia service.
A list of names found on World War One monuments in Wiltshire, with some service details.
Combe Court & Legal Records
Abstracts of records detailing the deaths of landowners in Wiltshire and the inheritance of their lands.
Abstracts of records detailing the deaths of landowners in Wiltshire and the inheritance of their lands.
Abstracts of records detailing the deaths of landowners in Wiltshire and the inheritance of their lands.
Calendars to names occurring in over 65,000 legal documents.
Transcriptions of pleas brought before a court. They largely concern land disputes.
Combe Taxation Records
A transcription of records naming those who had taxes levied against them for the privilege of owning a hearth.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
This vital collection details almost 1.2 million properties eligible for land tax. Records include the name of the landowner, occupier, amount assessed and sometimes the name and/or description of the property. It is a useful starting point for locating relevant estate records and establishing the succession of tenancies and freehold. Most records cover 1798, but some extend up to 1811.
An index linked to original images of registers recording apprenticeship indentures. Details are given on the trade and nature of apprenticeship. Many records list the parents of the apprentice.
A compilation of records from the Court of the Exchequer primarily dealing with taxes and land. These records are in Latin.
Combe Land & Property Records
Abstracts of records detailing the deaths of landowners in Wiltshire and the inheritance of their lands.
Abstracts of records detailing the deaths of landowners in Wiltshire and the inheritance of their lands.
Abstracts of records detailing the deaths of landowners in Wiltshire and the inheritance of their lands.
An index to freeholders who voted in the election. Also names tenants of properties.
An index to over 400,000 names from numerous Wiltshire records, including court, parish, poor law and other records.
Combe Directories & Gazetteers
An exhaustive gazetteer, containing details of settlement's history, governance, churches, postal services, public institutions and more. Also contains lists of residents with their occupation and address.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
An exhaustive gazetteer, containing details of settlement's history, governance, churches, postal services, public institutions and more. Also contains lists of residents with their occupation and address.
Combe Cemeteries
An index to vital details engraved on over 290,000 monuments across the county of Wiltshire.
Photographs and descriptions of Wiltshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Photographs and descriptions of Hampshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Combe Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Combe Histories & Books
A history of Catholicism in South West England with biographies of noted Catholics. Contains details of the Dominican, Benedictine, and Franciscan orders.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Photographs and images of churches in Wiltshire.
Extensive galleries of parish churches in Wiltshire.
An index of windmills in the county, with brief notes and some photographs.
Combe School & Education Records
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A transcript of a vast scholarly work briefly chronicling the heritage, education and careers of over 150,000 Cambridge University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A searchable database containing over 90,000 note-form biographies for students of Cambridge University.
Combe Occupation & Business Records
An index to over 100,000 patient records covering Wiltshire.
Histories of Wiltshire pubs, with photographs and lists of owners or operators.
Profiles of coal and metal mines in the south of England.
Short histories of former public houses, with photographs and lists of owners or operators.
A history of Hampshire airfields, aviators and crashes.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Combe
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Hand-draw genealogical charts covering Hampshire's gentry. Includes descriptions of coats of arms.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Combe Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Photographs and descriptions of Wiltshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Hand-draw genealogical charts covering Hampshire's gentry. Includes descriptions of coats of arms.
Photographs and descriptions of Hampshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Combe Church Records
A history of Catholicism in South West England with biographies of noted Catholics. Contains details of the Dominican, Benedictine, and Franciscan orders.
Extensive galleries of parish churches in Wiltshire.
Photographs of parish churches in Hampshire, with architectural details and extracts from the 1851 ecclesiastical census.
An index to names and places mentioned in act books of the Province of Canterbury. It records various licences and conferments, such as marriage and physician licences.
Photographs of churches of all denominations throughout England and part of Wales.
Biographical Directories Covering Combe
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
A directory containing lengthy biographies of noted British figures. The work took over two decades to compile. Biographies can be searched by name and are linked to images of the original publication.
Combe Maps
Digital images of maps covering the county.
A survey of settlements in the county, with particular attention given to etymology. Contains reference to a number of old maps.
A series of old maps, itineraries and descriptions of the county.
Digital images of maps covering the county.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Combe Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Civil & Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Historical Description
COMBE is a small village and parish, in a deep valley on the Hampshire border and surrounded by downs, 6 miles south-east from Hungerford station, Pastrow hundred, petty sessional division of Kingsclere, Hungerford union and county court district, rural deanery of Kingsclere and archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The church of St. Swithin is a small and plain edifice of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a low wooden tower at the west end with 3 bells; it was restored in 1881 at a cost of £1,495: there are 80 sittings. The registers date from the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £151, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held since 1856 by the Rev. George Pearson M.A. of New Inn Hall, Oxford. Here formerly stood a convent connected with the Abbey of Bec in Normandy. There is a charity of about 18s. 4d. a year, left by the late Mr. Skinner, formerly lessee of the great tithes, to be given to the poor either in bread or money on Christmas Eve. Alfred Clayton Cole esq. 64 Portland place, W. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is rather heavy; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,226 acres; rateable value, £890; the population in 1891 was 93. This parish was on April 3rd, 1895, transferred to the countv of Berks for civil purposes.
National School (mixed), restored & reopened (1894), at the expense of A. C. Coles esq. will now hold 30 children; average attendance, 26.
COMBE is a small village and parish, in a deep valley on the Hampshire border and surrounded by downs, 6 miles south-east from Hungerford station, on the Great Western railway, in Pastrow hundred, petty sessional division of Kingsclere, Hungerford county court district, Hungerford and Ramsbury union, rural deanery of Kings-clere and archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. Under the provisions of the “Local Government Act, 1894” (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), this parish was, April 3, 1895, transferred from Hants to Berks. The church of St. Swithin is a small, plain flint fabric in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a low wooden tower at the west end with 3 bells; it was restored in 1881 by public subscription at a cost of £1,495: there are 80 sittings. The registers date from the year 1516. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £89, gross yearly value £192, net £151, with residence, in the gifts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held since 1856 by the Rev. George Pearson M.A. of New Inn Hall, Oxford. Here formerly stood a convent connected with the Abbey of Bec in Normandy. There is a charity of about 20s. a year, left by the late Mr. Skinner, formerly lessee of the great tithes, to be given to the poor either in bread or money on Christmas Eve. A. C. Cole esq. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is rather heavy; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,160 acres; rateable value, £624; the population in 1891 was 93.
National School (mixed), restored & reopened (1894), at the expense of A. C. Cole esq. will now hold 30 children.
Most Common Surnames in Combe
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Pastrow Hundred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powell | 10 | 1:13 | 1.34% | 102 |
| 2 | Kimber | 9 | 1:15 | 1.61% | 148 |
| 2 | Lovelock | 9 | 1:15 | 4.89% | 600 |
| 4 | Salt | 7 | 1:19 | 35.00% | 3,757 |
| 5 | Miles | 6 | 1:22 | 0.74% | 93 |
| 5 | Bulpit | 6 | 1:22 | 7.14% | 1,232 |
| 5 | Anneth | 6 | 1:22 | 100.00% | 8,931 |
| 8 | Harris | 5 | 1:27 | 0.25% | 12 |
| 8 | Hunt | 5 | 1:27 | 0.32% | 24 |
| 8 | Pearson | 5 | 1:27 | 1.88% | 399 |
| 8 | Butler | 5 | 1:27 | 0.49% | 66 |
| 8 | Mathews | 5 | 1:27 | 1.79% | 365 |
| 8 | Head | 5 | 1:27 | 1.21% | 221 |
| 8 | Snell | 5 | 1:27 | 6.33% | 1,300 |
| 15 | Butt | 4 | 1:34 | 0.74% | 153 |
| 15 | Meurnan | 4 | 1:34 | 100.00% | 11,568 |
| 17 | Jones | 3 | 1:45 | 0.12% | 6 |
| 17 | Grace | 3 | 1:45 | 0.95% | 313 |
| 17 | Tovey | 3 | 1:45 | 9.68% | 2,738 |
| 17 | Latimour | 3 | 1:45 | 100.00% | 13,398 |
| 21 | Hooper | 2 | 1:67 | 0.40% | 175 |
| 21 | Tanner | 2 | 1:67 | 0.38% | 165 |
| 21 | Cummins | 2 | 1:67 | 0.86% | 467 |
| 21 | Canning | 2 | 1:67 | 2.38% | 1,232 |
| 21 | Silvoy | 2 | 1:67 | 100.00% | 15,572 |
| 26 | Green | 1 | 1:134 | 0.06% | 16 |
| 26 | Scott | 1 | 1:134 | 0.12% | 84 |
| 26 | Morris | 1 | 1:134 | 0.09% | 48 |
| 26 | James | 1 | 1:134 | 0.08% | 39 |
| 26 | Palmer | 1 | 1:134 | 0.10% | 62 |
| 26 | Fisher | 1 | 1:134 | 0.15% | 122 |
| 26 | Preston | 1 | 1:134 | 0.29% | 277 |
| 26 | Piper | 1 | 1:134 | 0.30% | 291 |
| 26 | Case | 1 | 1:134 | 0.85% | 914 |
| 26 | Batt | 1 | 1:134 | 0.55% | 607 |
| 26 | Witts | 1 | 1:134 | 1.32% | 1,340 |
| 26 | Northcroft | 1 | 1:134 | 25.00% | 11,568 |
| 26 | Hurzel | 1 | 1:134 | 100.00% | 18,944 |
| 26 | Cummims | 1 | 1:134 | 100.00% | 18,944 |