MALMESBURY BOROUGH COUNCIL

<span class="wrapper"><p>CORONERS' RECORDS</p> <p>Wiltshire County Coroner</p> <p>Inquest papers (selected), 1934-date, 75-year closure</p> <p>Registers of inquisitions, 1921-date, 75-year closure</p> <p>Treasure Trove files, c.1930-date, 30-year closure</p> <p>Returns and day books, c.1950-date, 75-year closure</p> <p>Coroner's private papers, c.1930, 75-year closure</p> <p>Lists of inquisitions with verdicts, submitted as bills for expenses to Quarter Sessions.</p> <p>Those for 1752-1796 are printed in Wiltshire Record Society vol. 36, Wiltshire Coroners' Bills 1752-1796. Later ones are filed on the Quarter Sessions rolls until 1823, then as part of the Quarter Sessions bills and vouchers to 1860, when they cease. The series of later bills is very incomplete, 1752-1860</p> <p>Corsham Liberty Coroner</p> <p>Lists (printed Wiltshire Society, vol. 36, as above), 1761-1792</p> <p>Malmesbury Borough Coroner</p> <p>Inquisitions, informations, depositions, etc. (75 docs), (G21/1/32), 1830-1854</p> <p>Marlborough Borough Coroner</p> <p>Inquisitions with orders and lists of witnesses, (G22/1/204), 1773-1835</p> <p>Salisbury City Coroner</p> <p>Inquest papers, 1876-1974, 75-year closure</p> <p>Wootton Bassett Borough Coroner</p> <p>Lists (printed Wiltshire Record Society, vol. 36, as above), 1765-1793</p> <p>Information about inquests can generally be found in local newspapers. Before 1850 it is unlikely to be very detailed, but in the later period, reports frequently give the evidence presented to the coroner.</p></span>