Barrington, Somerset Genealogy
Guide to Barrington, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Barrington, Somerset | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | South Petherton |
| County | Somerset |
| Poor Law Union | Langport |
| Registration District | Langport |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1653 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1597 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Crewkerne |
| Diocese | Bath and Wells |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Taunton |
| Location of Archive | |
| Somerset Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BARRINGTON, a parish in Langport district, Somerset; 3½ miles NE of Ilminster, and 5 SW of Langport railway station. It includes the hamlet of Barrington Hill, and part of the hamlet of Westport. There is a Wesleyan chapel.[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].
Barrington, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BARRINGTON PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1654-1812 | |||||
| FREG | 1653-1907 | 1654-1906 | 1789-1892 | |||
| FS | 1597-1813 (gaps) | |||||
| JOIN | 1654-1837 | |||||
| MARR | 1654-1837 | |||||
| NBI | 1784-1893 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| WCGEN | 1755-1906 | |||||
Church records on microfilm[edit | edit source]
Bishops Transcripts
- Bishop's transcripts for Barrington (Church of England), 1597-1813
- Bishop's transcripts for Barrington (Church of England), 1597-1847
Parish Registers
Church Vital Records
- Marriages at Barrington (Church of England), 1654-1812
- Births and Christenings, A thru Z 1597-1674 1732-1760 1802-1813
- Christenings, 1597-1813
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Union[edit | edit source]
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 placed the responsibility for the care of the poor in England and Wales, from 1834 onward, on Poor Law Unions[11]. The Poor Law Unions and their workhouses took over this responsibility from the Church of England parishes. Prior to 1834 a few parishes or collections of parishes had established a few workhouses to help relieve the poor and provide indoor relief in the form of food, clothes and shelter.
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.
School Records[edit | edit source]
School records are a primary source for genealogists. The admission registers of schools administered by local authorities, perhaps from the 1870s but more frequently from 1902, usually show under the date of entry, the child's name and address and his or her date of birth. Some registers, but not all, also show the name and occupation of the parent or guardian, the name of the previous school attended and the reason for leaving [12].
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[13] .
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/Barrington/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, 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 19 February 2014.
- ↑ '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 30 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.
- ↑ West Country Genealogy, accessed 22 October 2013.
- ↑ England and Wales Poor Law
- ↑ England schools
- ↑ Land Tax Assessment Records
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