Bristol St Thomas, Gloucestershire Genealogy
Guide to Bristol St Thomas, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Bristol St Thomas, Gloucestershire | |
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![]() St Thomas the Martyr Bristol | |
Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Bristol City |
County | Somerset, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Bristol |
Registration District | Bristol |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1552 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1610 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Bristol |
Diocese | Gloucester and Bristol |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Bristol in the Deanery of Bristol (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Bristol Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BRISTOL, a city and county of itself, and a considerable port, is situated near the mouth of the Bristol Channel, and between the counties of Gloucester and Somerset, into both of which the town extends. The city of Bristol comprised within its ancient limits many parishes including the parish of St. THOMAS.[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]
Bristol St Thomas, Gloucestershire parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) (£)[2] | |||||
FMP = Gloucestershire, Bristol parish register indexes (findmypast) (£)[3] | |||||
FS BTs= England, Bristol Bishop's Transcripts (FamilySearch) - free (some restrictions may apply)[4] | |||||
FS PRs(1)= England Births, Christenings, Marriages, Burials (FamilySearch) - free (some restrictions may apply). Digitisation of microfilms.[4] | |||||
FS PRs(2)= England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900 (FamilySearch) - free (some restrictions may apply). Digitisation of original records.[4] |
BRISTOL ST THOMAS PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BOYD | None | None | 1594-1799 | None | None | None |
FMP | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | |||
FS BTs | 1610-1839 | 1610-1839 | 1610-1839 | |||
FS BTs | Undisclosed | 1840-1900 | Undisclosed | 1840-1900 | Undisclosed | 1840-1854 |
FS PRs(1) | Undefined | 1813-1890 | Undefined | 1784-1904 | ||
FS PRs(2) | 1837-1848, 1890-1907 | 1552-1907 | 1813-1904 | 1552-1904 | 1889-1899 | 1552-1812, 1889-1899 |
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1642-1996 England, Gloucestershire Non-conformist Records, 1642-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
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]
Bristol Poor Law Unions,England
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/GLS/Bristol/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Date accessed and adapted: 14 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' Origins.net, accessed 1 December 2012.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, Bristol Life Events Parish Lists,' findmypast.co.uk, accessed 31 May 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 'FamilySearch Catalogue,' FamilySearch, accessed 1 June 2016.
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