Angersleigh, Somerset Genealogy
Guide to Angersleigh, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Angersleigh, Somerset | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Taunton and Taunton-Dean |
County | Somerset, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Taunton |
Registration District | Taunton |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1678 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1594 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Taunton |
Diocese | Bath and Wells |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Taunton |
Location of Archive | |
Somerset Archives and Local Studies | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
ANGERSLEIGH, a parish in Taunton district, Somerset; on the verge of the county, under Black Down hills, 4 miles SSW of Taunton railway station.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Church records are the main source for identifying people prior to 1837 when civil registration began. It is also a main source after 1837 in conjunction with civil registration. The Church of England was formed in 1536, after King Henry VIII severed all ties to the church in Rome. Each local parish was responsible to register all marriages, baptisms and burials starting in 1538 [2] .
Angersleigh, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
ANGERSLEIGH PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BOYD | 1693-1812 | |||||
FREG | 1598-1901 | 1616-1669, 1693-1892 | 1598-1912 | |||
FS | 1594-1630s | |||||
JOIN | 1693-1836 | |||||
MARR | 1616-1744, 1759-1836 | |||||
NBI | 1595-1991 | |||||
PALL | 1790-1812 |
Church records on microfilm[edit | edit source]
Bishops Transcripts
- Bishop's transcripts for Angersleigh (Church of England), 1593-1822
- Bishop's transcripts for Angersleigh (Church of England), 1598-1811
Church Vital Records
- Births for Angersleigh from 1594-1812
- Christenings for Angersleigh from 1594-1812
- Marriages for Angersleigh (Church of England), 1693-1812
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Somerset Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Tax Records[edit | edit source]
In 1692 the British government instituted another innovative scheme to increase revenue which came to be known as the land tax[10] .
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Angersleigh/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wilson John M., Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72). Date accessed: 11 September 2013.
- ↑ England Church Records
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Somerset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 16 October 2013.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Somerset, England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 21 October 2013.
- ↑ 'Somerset Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 18 October 2013.
- ↑ 'Somerset Marriages', findmypast (WayBack Machine), accessed 29 April 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 17 October 2013.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ Land Tax Assessment Records