Somerset

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. County town: Taunton Other major towns: Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater Somerset Places of Worship Regional projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• County Record Office

• Somerset Studies Library

• Library Link

• Somerset and Dorset Family History Society

• Rootschat Somerset Board

• The Local History Directory

• Weston-Super-Mare FHS

• Bristol and Avon FHS

• Somerset OPC's

• East Somerset OPC

• Counties and places included in the FreeREG Project

• GENUKI Somerset

Countywide Interest

• Bath and North East Somerset BMD

• Bath Record Office Extracts from Bath Georgian Newspapers 1780-1800

• Colin's Genealogy Pages, Transcribed Parish Registers

• Parish Register Transcriptions- Parts of Somerset

• Parish Register Transcriptions for Somerset

• Pigot's Directory of Somerset c1844, Index

• Rootsweb Parish Transcriptions

• Roy Parkhouse's Genealogy Homepage

• Somerset & Dorset Surnames and Queries Index

• Southwest England Genealogical Indices

• Visitation of Somerset 1623

• West Somerset Parish Register Transcriptions

• Somerset County

• Somerset Genweb

• Somerset Registration Service

• Somerset Workhouses

• The Larder Family of Somerset

• War Memorial Site Transcriptions for the Avon Area

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Aller 1841 and 1891 Censuses and 1840 Tithe Assessment

• The Bath Chronicle Newspaper Project

• Beckington Village

• Bridgwater Grammar Schools

• Bridgwater Genealogy

• Bristol - Aspects of Bristol History and Genealogy

• Bristol Companies

• Bristol’s Lost Pubs & Publicans

• Brompton Regis "The Blessed Virgin Mary" Parish Registers

• Chipstable "All Saints" Parish Registers

• 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

• Othery Parish Registers - Transcribed by Amy L. Lunde. Transcriptions for Othery

• The Portbury Hundred

• Rooksbridge and East Brent

• Ships in port at Highbridge,Portishead & Bridgwater 1881

• Horsington Genealogy

• Loxton Parish Records & School Admissions Registers

• Nailsea - Sage Family History

• Somerset Coalfield and Midsummer Norton area

• A Martock Scrapbook

• Middlezoy and Othery

• Othery

• Saltford Village

• South Petherton

• Stoke St Gregory

• Wedmore Genealogy Pages

• Westonzoyland Pumping Station - Museum of Steam Power and Land Drainage on the Somerset Levels

• West Clevedon and Portishead Railway

• Winsham Web Museum

• St John the Baptist Church, Yeovil

Maps and Photographs

• A Directory of Bristol Photographers 1852-1972

• Old Maps, Postcards & Pictures of Somerset

Books of local interest

Register Office

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

Wellington Union Workhouse

Contact Somerset Archive & Records Office for Births & Deaths in Workhouse.

They do not have Admission or Discharge Registers for Wellington Union.

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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