Bath Abbey, Somerset Genealogy
Guide to Bath Abbey, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
To view and printout a list of Bath's chapels and parishes, see A Comprehensive List of Bath Abbey's Chapels and District Chapels.
Bath Abbey, Somerset | |
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![]() Bath Abbey Somerset | |
Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Bath |
County | Somerset, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Bath |
Registration District | Bath |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1569 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1609 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Bath |
Diocese | Bath and Wells |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Bath and Wells (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Somerset Archives and Local Studies | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BATH, a city, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Bath-Forum, E. division of Somerset, 12 miles east by south from Bristol, 19 (north by northeast from Wells, and 107 west from London, on the direct road to Bristol; containing, with it the whole parish of Walcot, and the parishes of Bathwick, Widcombe and Lyncombe.
The parishof St Peter and St Paul, or the Abbey parish, and the parish of St James, form a rectory, with the vicarage of Lyncombe and Widcombe (both of which also see) annexed. The church was rebuilt in the year 1606. Jointly with Wells, Bath is the head of a diocese comprising very nearly the whole of the county of Somerset.[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.
Bath Civil Registration District has a complete index of civil registration from 1837-2007 online through the volunteer effort of Bath BMD,England Marriage registrations post 2007 are added as index become available. There are detailed content tables available.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Bath Abbey, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BATH ABBEY PARISH (1569) | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
AC | 1569-1812 | 1569-1812 | 1569-1753 | 1569-1753 | 1569-1819 | 1569-1819 |
BOYD | 1569-1800 | |||||
FREG | 1569-1901 | 1569-1840 | 1569-1840, 1873-1908 | |||
FS | 1569-1839 | 1569-1812, 1829-1837 | ||||
MARR | 1569-1742, 1754-1893 | |||||
NBI | 1668-1945 | |||||
PALL | 1790-1802 | |||||
FS | 1569-1839 | 1569-1837 |
Bath St John parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BATH ST JOHN PARISH | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BOYD | 1682-1714 | |||||
FREG | 1695-1709 | 1682-1714 | 1679-1688 |
Bath Christchurch parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BATH CHRISTCHURCH PARISH | ||||||
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FREG | 1877-1912 |
Bath St Mary of the Stall parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BATH ST MARY OF THE STALL PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1605-1606 | 1605-1606 | 1605-1606 | |||
FS | 1605-1606 |
Bath St Saviour parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BATH ST SAVIOUR PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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FS | 1840-1862 |
Census records[edit | edit source]
- 1523 - Bath City Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/141[12]. Copy: FHL British Film 2228722.
- 1524 - Bath City Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/142[13]. Copy: FHL British Film 2228722.
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 Unions[edit | edit source]
Bath Poor Law Union, Somerset Genealogy
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.
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/Bath/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England,(1848). pp. 168-177. Date accessed: 11 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Somerset, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1531-1812,' Ancestry, accessed 22 July 2016.
- ↑ 'Somerset, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913,' Ancestry, accessed 22 July 2016.
- ↑ 'Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914,' Ancestry, accessed 22 July 2016.
- ↑ 'Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1914,' Ancestry, accessed 22 July 2016.
- ↑ 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 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.
- ↑ E 179 Database, The National Archives, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/, accessed 8 August 2013.
- ↑ E 179 Database, The National Archives, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/, accessed 8 August 2013.