Welcome
The Well House Collection is comprised of documents, ephemera, books, photographs and audio/visual files that chronicle the history of Melksham and closely surrounding villages in Wiltshire, England.
Acquisitions are privately funded, donated and loaned. The Well House Collection is passionate about Melksham history, and if you are too, and enjoy puzzles, forensics, research and learning, you might want to consider volunteering to help!
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Including daily updates of "On this day ..." An interesting collection of local births, deaths and newspaper headlines of the day.
More than 1,700 photos added to profiles. If you have a photo of your relative, please send it!
Spouses are now click-able in the right hand column.
We continue to grow and amend the people database. Since our last upday in August, we added 3492 new names and added to/corrected 846 records.
RESEARCH: Adding to the database has been ongoing and we're now past 53,500 local names.
1841–1911 CENSUSES: Because of constant updates, the current downloads on this site are not up to date. Until I have all these revisions updated and posted, please do email me for a current copy.
1921 CENSUS has been transcribed, but not yet uploaded, though you will find this information within the personal records.
LECTURES: Upcoming talk -- March 2026 -- "The Trials of Rev Barnwell".
EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE: If you have not updated your records, please note my new email address.
Lisa Ellis lisa@sn12.net
Current projects
Updated Wednesday, 12 November, 2025
