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Stogursey Parish Church submitted by Guinevere

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

Bridgewater

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

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

Within cycling distance (20 miles) of Bruton:Nessmcd

Links

General

County Record Office

Library Link

Somerset and Dorset Family History Society

Rootschat Somerset Board

Roy Parkhouse's Genealogy Homepage

Local History Society

Somerset and Dorset Family History Society

Local History Societies

Weston-Super-Mare FHS

Bristol and Avon FHS

OPC

Online Parish Clerks

Archives

West Somerset Parish Registers

PIGOT'S DIRECTORY of SOMERSET c1844, Index

Bath record officeextracts from Bath Georgian newspapers 1780-1800.

Colins Genealogy Pages transcribed Parish Registers:

Counties and places included in the FreeREG Project

Parish Register Transcriptions Online Marriage Registers for some of Somerset:

Somerset Pages Some more Parish Register Transcripts for parts of Somerset.

GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy BMDs for Minehead in particular from late 1700's through to 1901.

Othery Parish Registers - Transcribed by Amy L. LundeSome transcriptions for Othery.

Parish Registers of West SomersetParish Registers of West Somerset.

Rootsweb Here are some more excellent parish transcriptions:

Parish Registers for Taunton,Enmore or Bicknoller

War Memorial Sitewar memorial transcriptions for the old Avon area.

WEST SOMERSET PARISH REGISTER TRANSCRIPTIONS

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

Maps & Photographs

Town And Village Maps

Countywide interest

West Country Newspapers

Somerset County

Specific Town Village interest

Bridgwater Grammar Schools

Bridgwater Genealogy

Loxton Village Website

High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records

The Portbury Hundred

SHIPS IN PORT AT HIGHBRIDGE, PORTISHEAD & BRIDGWATER, SOMERSET 1881.

Sage Family History - Nailsea

Somerset CoalfieldSomerset coalfield and Midsummer Norton area.

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.

For Somerset Newspaper enquiries

Tel: 01823 340301
E-Mail: Somerset Studies Library

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 =====General=====
 *[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ County Record Office]
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 *[http://www.sdfhs.org/ Somerset and Dorset Family History Society]
-*[http://wsomparreg.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ West Somerset Parish Registers]
+*[http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,33.0.html  Rootschat Somerset Board]
+*[http://www.parkhouse.org.uk/index.htm Roy Parkhouse's Genealogy Homepage]
+'''Local History Society'''
+*[http://www.sdfhs.org/ Somerset and Dorset Family History Society]
+*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/somerset.html Local History Societies]
 *[http://www.wsmfhs.org.uk/ Weston-Super-Mare FHS]
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 *[http://www.bafhs.org.uk/ Bristol and Avon FHS]
-*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/somerset.html Local History Societies]
-*[http://www.old-maps.co.uk/gazetteer/10somer311/10somer311gazA.htm Town And Village Maps]
+'''OPC'''
 *[http://wsom-opc.org.uk/ Online Parish Clerks]
-*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nmfa/Directories/pigot_directory_of_somerset_c1844/pdosc1844index.html PIGOT'S DIRECTORY of SOMERSET c1844, Index]
-*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/som/Somerset.htm Somerset Workhouses ]
+'''Archives'''
-*[http://www.batharchives.co.uk/ Bath record office]extracts from Bath Georgian newspapers 1780-1800.
+*[http://wsomparreg.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ West Somerset Parish Registers]
-*[http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=pjc4ax&surname=A Somerset Coalfield] A good site for the Somerset coalfield and the Midsummer Norton area.
+*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nmfa/Directories/pigot_directory_of_somerset_c1844/pdosc1844index.html PIGOT'S DIRECTORY of SOMERSET c1844, Index]
-*[http://genealogy.colinrayner.org.uk/ Colins Genealogy Pages] Try this site for some transcribed Parish Registers:
+*[http://www.batharchives.co.uk/ Bath record office]extracts from Bath Georgian newspapers 1780-1800.
-*[http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,33.0.html  Rootschat Somerset Board]
+*[http://genealogy.colinrayner.org.uk/ Colins Genealogy Pages] transcribed Parish Registers:
 *[http://freereg.rootsweb.com/parishes/index.htm Counties and places included in the FreeREG Project]
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 *[http://www.hue.org/Othery/ Othery Parish Registers - Transcribed by Amy L. Lunde]Some transcriptions for Othery.
+*[http://wsomparreg.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ Parish Registers of West Somerset]Parish Registers of West Somerset.
 *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pbtyc/PR_Index.html#top  Rootsweb ]Here are some more excellent parish transcriptions:
-*[http://wsomparreg.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ Parish Registers of West Somerset]Good site for Parish Registers of West Somerset.
+*[http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.mansfield1/paul003.html Parish Registers for Taunton,Enmore or Bicknoller]
 *[http://uk.geocities.com/williamfdungey/mems/memindex.html War Memorial Site]war memorial transcriptions for the old Avon area.
-*[http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.mansfield1/paul001.html West Country Newspapers]
+*[http://wsomparreg.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ WEST SOMERSET PARISH REGISTER TRANSCRIPTIONS]
+'''Family and social history'''
-*[http://www.somersetgateway.com/index.htm Somerset County]
-*[http://www.digifutures.org/schools/index.htm Bridgwater Grammar Schools]
+*[http://www.bristolslostpubs.com/ Bristol’s Lost Pubs]
-*[http://www.bridgwateruk.com/genealogy.htm Bridgwater Genealogy]
+*[http://www.bakery.co.uk/sandd/ Somerset & Dorset Surnames and Queries Index]
-*[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ian.sage/index.htm Sage Family History - Nailsea]
+*[http://weldgen.tripod.com/id41.html Bristol Companies, history and information]
 *[http://www.somersetlarders.com/pages/content.php The Larder family of Somerset]
-*[http://weldgen.tripod.com/id41.html Bristol Companies, history and information]
+*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/som/Somerset.htm Somerset Workhouses ]
+'''Maps & Photographs'''
+*[http://www.old-maps.co.uk/gazetteer/10somer311/10somer311gazA.htm Town And Village Maps]
+'''Countywide interest'''
+*[http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.mansfield1/paul001.html West Country Newspapers]
+*[http://www.somersetgateway.com/index.htm Somerset County]
-*[http://www.bakery.co.uk/sandd/ Somerset & Dorset Surnames and Queries Index]
+'''Specific Town Village interest'''
-You can search for other researchers with the same surname interests and contact them by email or you can contact the webmaster and get him to upload your surname interests to the website. However, if you choose this option, I would suggest you create a secondary email address or use a disposable email address before you upload your info to a website. Any spam the email address attracts on the website will then not go to your primary email address.
-*[http://www.bristolslostpubs.com/ Bristol’s Lost Pubs]
-*[http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.mansfield1/paul003.html Parish Registers for Taunton,Enmore or Bicknoller]
+*[http://www.digifutures.org/schools/index.htm Bridgwater Grammar Schools]
-*[http://wsomparreg.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ WEST SOMERSET PARISH REGISTER TRANSCRIPTIONS]
+*[http://www.bridgwateruk.com/genealogy.htm Bridgwater Genealogy]
 *[http://www.loxtonsomerset.org.uk/records.html Loxton Village Website]
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 *[http://www.angelfire.com/de/BobSanders/Somerset81.html SHIPS IN PORT AT HIGHBRIDGE, PORTISHEAD & BRIDGWATER, SOMERSET 1881.]
-*[http://www.parkhouse.org.uk/index.htm Roy Parkhouse's Genealogy Homepage]
+*[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ian.sage/index.htm Sage Family History - Nailsea]
+*[http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=pjc4ax&surname=A Somerset Coalfield]Somerset coalfield and Midsummer Norton area.
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