Somerset

Stogursey Parish Church submitted by Guinevere

Somerset County Map (source: Wikipedia)

Somerset

County town: Taunton

Other major towns: Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater

Land of the Summer People, the scenery is outstanding, from the rolling hills of The Mendips, The Quantocks, The Blackdowns and The Brendans to the plains of Exmoor and the Somerset Levels.

Contrary to popular belief, the majority of Exmoor is in the county of Somerset, not Devon!

Tourist attractions include the Caves at Cheddar & Wookey Hole, the beautiful Cathedral City of Wells, the smallest city in the UK, and the spiritual town of Glastonbury with its world famous Tor. Somerset is the home of The true English carnival, a spectacle for 400 years.

Somerset gave the world Cheddar cheese & cider, The Worzels & Acker Bilk. King Alfred burned the cakes here & arguably King Arthur lived here.

Register Office Contact Details

Somerset Registration Service Website and online certificate applications: Registration Service

Bath BMD has birth marriages and deaths from 1837 and the old Avon area of Somerset.
Births include mother's maiden name and certificates can be ordered directly from them.

• Bath Births Marriages & Deaths

Bridgwater
Morgan House
Mount Street
Bridgwater
TA6 3ER
Tel 01278 422527
E-mail bridgwaterro@somerset.gov.uk

Shepton Mallett
19B, Commercial Road
Shepton Mallet
BA4 5BU
Tel 01749 343928
E-mail sheptonro@somerset.gov.uk

Taunton
Flook House
Belvedere Road
Taunton
TA1 1BT
Tel 01823 282251
E-mail tauntonro@somerset.gov.uk

Williton
2 Long Street
Williton
TA4 4QN
Tel 01984 633116
E-mail willitonro@somerset.gov.uk

Yeovil
Maltravers House
Petters Way
Yeovil
BA20 1SP
Tel 01935 411230
E-mail yeovilro@somerset.gov.uk

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Within cycling distance (20 miles) of Bruton Nessmcd

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please private message the member with your queries.

Links

• County Record Office
• Somerset Studies Library
• Library Link
• Somerset and Dorset Family History Society
• Rootschat Somerset Board
• Roy Parkhouse's Genealogy Homepage

Local History Society

• Local History Societies
• Weston-Super-Mare FHS
• Bristol and Avon FHS

OPC

• Somerset OPC
• East Somerset OPC

Archives

• IGI Somerset
• Bath and North East Somerset BMD
• West Somerset Parish Registers
• Pigot's Directory of Somerset c1844, Index
• Bath record office extracts from Bath Georgian newspapers 1780-1800
• Colins Genealogy Pages, transcribed Parish Registers
• Counties and places included in the FreeREG Project
• GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy BMDs for Minehead in particular from late 1700's through to 1901
• Othery Parish Registers - Transcribed by Amy L. Lunde. Transcriptions for Othery
• Rootsweb Parish Transcriptions
• War Memorial Site transcriptions for the old Avon area
• Southwest England Genealogical Indices
• Some Parish Register Transcriptions for Somerset
• Visitation of Somerset 1623
• "All Saints" Parish Registers, Chipstable, Somerset
• St John the Baptist Church, Yeovil
• Brompton Regis "The Blessed Virgin Mary" Parish Registers

Family and Social History

• Bristol’s Lost Pubs
• Somerset & Dorset Surnames and Queries Index
• Bristol Companies, history and information
• The Larder family of Somerset
• Somerset Workhouses
• West Clevedon and Portishead Railway

Maps & Photographs

• A Directory of Bristol Photographers 1852-1972
• Old maps, Postcards & Pictures of Somerset

Countywide Interest

• Somerset County
• Somerset Towns & Parishes
• Somerset Genweb
• Somerset Registration Service *Parish Register Transcriptions, Online Marriage Registers for some of Somerset
• Parish Register Transcripts for parts of Somerset
• Westonzoyland Pumping Station - Museum of Steam Power and Land Drainage on the Somerset Levels

Specific Town Village Interest

• Aller 1841 and 1891 Censuses and 1840 Tithe Assessment
• The Bath Chronicle Newspaper Project
• Beckington Village
• Bridgwater Grammar Schools
• Bridgwater Genealogy
• Bristol Information - aspects of Bristol History and Genealogy
• Clevedon Baptisms Marriages, Deaths & Census
• Clutton Village
• Compton Bishop and Cross
• Evercreech Village
• Frome Family & Local History
• Frome
• Frome Holy Trinity Marriages Nov 1884-1868
• 19th Century Hambridge
• High Littleton and Hallatrow History & Parish Records
• Loxton Village Website
• GENUKI: Minehead UK & Ireland Genealogy BMDs late 1700's through to 1901
• Minehead On-Line-includes Porlock and other nearby villages
• North Curry
• The Portbury Hundred
• Rooksbridge and East Brent
• Ships in port at Highbridge,Portishead & Bridgwater 1881
• Horsington Genealogy
• Loxton Parish Records & School Admissions Registers
• Saltford Village
• Sage Family History - Nailsea
• Somerset Coalfield and Midsummer Norton area
• A Martock Scrapbook
• Rooksbridge and East Brent
• South Petherton
• Wedmore Genealogy Pages
• Winsham Web Museum

Wellington Union Workhouse

• Contact Somerset Archive & Records Office

for Births & Deaths in Workhouse. Indoor Relief up to 1870. They do not have Admission or Discharge Registers for Wellington Union.

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