Wiltshire has 282 Tasker records on the IGI, but only one main family before 1600. They were based at Chippenham, where Robert Tasker married Elizabeth Stephens on 29 January 1578. Daughter Elnor was christened on 3 Apr 1579, followed by son Richard on 10 February 1580. Possibly Robert's sister, Jonne (Joan?) Tasker married John Wasstfield in Chippenham on 4 September 1581, and another possible sister Elizabeth Tasker married John Fabenes there on 14 December 1584.

At about the same time as this Chippenham family, John Tasker had daughter Margaret christened on 29 Jun 1580, at the village of Steeple Ashton, near Trowbridge.

The father of Tasker's Steam Engines (and Tasker's Ironworks and Tasker's Trailers too) came from Wiltshire, as Robert Tasker was born in Stanton-St-Bernard, about 1785. He and his brother William learnt the trade of blacksmith from their father, before moving to Hampshire to establish the business that was to take the name of Tasker all over the country. As Stanton-St-Bernard is only a dozen miles away from Chippenham, their family line may go right back to Robert and Elizabeth in 1578. The story – and photographs - of Tasker's Ironworks, Tasker's Steam Engines and Tasker's Trailers – is here.