Genealogy Chat

Could some kind person put me out of my misery? See below

Could some kind person tell me where Chirton and Rollestone are? I know Chirton is still somewhere there (it isn't listed in the index of the gazetteer that I can read - but listed in the hopeless one whose 'grid' eludes me!! And Rolleston. I am assuming there is/was one (a marriage in 1660 was in Rollestone and listed as being in Wiltshire). It doesn't however, make it onto the index in either of my road maps. Victoria

Hi The following site lists Rollestone but nothing for Chirton: www(.)old-maps(.)co(.)uk ignore brackets. Suzanne Matches for : rollestone 1. Rollestone , DERBYSHIRE 1. Rollestone , YORKSHIRE 2. Rollestone , WILTSHIRE

Chirton. Find Chippenham, then follow the A342 down, past Devizes, you come to Chirton, just before Wilsford. Dea x Have found 3 Rollestone's but not in Wiltshire.

Thanks so much Dea - just the sort of instructions that even I can follow!!! Chirton found! If you carry on like that Merry, Jess, Beryl et al will have you navigating their way to the Old Crone's dire family wedding in June! As for Rolllestone, had it not been for the fact that it is listed as being in Wiltshire....... Perhaps it has been subsumed in some now much larger town. I too found those other three - but they are hardly in Wiltshire! Maybe someone out there will remember hearing.... or be living in a suburb called Rollestone. You never know your luck in a big city. Thanks too Suzanne - right now the site is unavailable!! Maybe it is too hot for it to think too! Victoria Canberra (where it is still 32.5 degrees at 9pm!! Ugh)

Victoria Probably doesn't help much, but I have relatives who lived in Rollestone Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1851. Angela

It's the thought that counts Angela - and it could be that Rollestone is now part of Salisbury (it would be in the right sort of area). When I can get into that site................ Happy new year Victoria

This may help on Rollerstone: (Shrewton is on the A360 going down from Devizes, past Tilshead ) Rollestone appeared in the Domesday book. The camp is 3 miles from Shrewton, on Salisbury Plain. During WW1, it was used for Observation Balloon Reconnaissance training. The balloon hangars are still in existence. There is a record of a soldier promoted to Acting Bombardier who put up his stripe on 22 May 1915, while in training at Rollestone Camp. However, on 14 Feb 1916 he was put on an unusual charge of 'General slackness at PT', which led to the removal of his stripe and extra pay on 23 Mar of that year. From the diary of a 20-year-old Jun 21 1917. 'Proceeded to Amesbury and then by car to Rollestone Camp, an awfully out of the way place.' There was once an RAF Anti-Gas School at Rollestone Camp. The camp continued in use during WW2 and is today used by troops training on Salisbury Plain. In the 1980s the camp was used as an overspill prison during the prison officers’ dispute. Prisoners were often seen in the village of Shrewton carrying out maintenance tasks. Dea

If you go to this webpage - It tells you EVERYTHING you could wish to know about Rollerstone. (+ everywhere else in Wiltshire)!! http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom.php?id=202 Dea x

Thanks SO much Dea! And just where I would have liked it to be!! The family I am currently investigating settled in Tilshead in the second half of the 1600s - after William married Ann in Rollestone! Victoria