Barton St David, Somerset Genealogy
Guide to Barton St David, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Barton St David, Somerset | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Catsash |
County | Somerset, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Langport |
Registration District | Langport |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1714 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1598 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Cary |
Diocese | Bath and Wells |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells |
Location of Archive | |
Somerset Archives and Local Studies | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BARTON-ST.-DAVID, a parish in Langport district, Somerset; on the river Brue, 4 miles NE of Somerton, and 6 SE of Glastonbury railway station. There is an Independent 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] .
Barton St David, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FREG = FreeREG - free[3] | |||||
MARR = Somerset Marriages (findmypast) - (£)[4] | |||||
NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[5] |
BARTON ST DAVID PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1607-1679, 1720-1899 | 1607-1679, 1755-1887 | 1607-1679, 1714-1766, 1784-1889 | |||
MARR | 1598-1750, 1755-1886 | |||||
NBI | 1607-1992 |
Church records on microfilm[edit | edit source]
Bishops Transcripts
- Bishop's transcripts for Barton-St. David (Church of England), 1598-1826
- Bishop's transcripts for Barton-St. David (Church of England), 1607-1679
Parish Register
Church Warden Accounts
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.
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[6]. 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.
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[7] .
- Land tax assessments for Barton-St. David, 1766-1832
- Land tax assessments for Barton-St. David, 1767-1831
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/BartonStDavid/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
- ↑ 'Somerset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 16 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.
- ↑ England and Wales Poor Law
- ↑ Land Tax Assessment Records
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