Place:Fisherton Delamere, Wiltshire, England

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NameFisherton Delamere
Alt namesFisherton de la Maresource: village in parish
Fisherton-De-La-Meresource: alternate spelling
Fisherton Delamaresource: alternate spelling
Baptonsource: hamlet in parish, to Stockton in 1934
Fisherton Millsource: settlement in parish, to Stockton in 1934
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates51.146°N 2.001°W
Located inWiltshire, England     ( - 1934)
See alsoWarminster Hundred, Wiltshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Wilton Rural, Wiltshire, Englandrural district, 1894 - 1934
Wylye, Wiltshire, Englandcivil parish into which it was part merged in 1934
Stockton, Wiltshire, Englandcivil parish into which it was part merged in 1934
Salisbury District, Wiltshire, Englanddistrict municipality 1974-2009
Wiltshire District, Wiltshire, Englandunitary authority since 2009
source: Family History Library Catalog
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

The ancient parish of Fisherton Delamere (sometimes "de la Mere") formed a detached part of the Warminster Hundred of Wiltshire. It contained two villages, Fisherton itself, to the north of the River Wylye, and Bapton, about a mile away and to the south of the river. The two parts had a combined total of 2,834 acres, of which 1,660 were in Fisherton. The civil parish, was extinguished in 1934, when Fisherton was transferred to Wylye, and Bapton to Stockton.

Fisherton lies just off the A36 road, midway between Salisbury and Warminster, and some ten miles southwest of Amesbury.

Owners

The name Delamere, Delamare, or de la Mere, refers to the family which owned the manor in the Middle Ages, whose name was spelt in all of those ways. The last of the family was Sir John Delamare (c. 1320–1383). When Eleanor Delamare, the niece and heiress of Sir John Delamare, died in 1413, Fisherton passed into the Paulet family and thus to William Paulet who was Lord Chamberlain and Secretary of State to Henry VIII, and Lord High Treasurer to Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. Fisherton continued to belong to the Paulets as Dukes of Bolton.

The Fisherton estate was owned by the Dukes of Somerset until the early 19th centuries. Bapton was owned by Sir Cecil Chubb from 1927, and he lived at Bapton Manor. In 1939 his heirs sold his estate to Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton, who died in 1940.

Research Tips

  • A detailed parish history was published in 1965 in Volume 8 of Wiltshire Victoria County History.
  • From this Ancestry page you can browse the Wiltshire parishes which have parish register transcripts online, quite often from very early dates. However, reading the early ones requires skill and patience. Transcriptions should also be in FamilySearch.
  • A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Wiltshire.
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