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Guide to Chew Magna, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Chew Magna, Somerset | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Chew |
| County | Somerset |
| Poor Law Union | Clutton |
| Registration District | Clutton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1598 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Chew |
| 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]
CHEW MAGNA (St. Andrew), a parish, and anciently a borough and market-town, in the union of Clutton, hundred of Chew, E. division of Somerset, 6½ miles (S.) from Bristol; containing the tythings of Bishop-Sutton, Knowle with Knighton-Sutton, North Elm, and Stone. At the north-eastern extremity of the parish is a ville, called Norton Hautville or Hawkfield. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, and Wesleyans.[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]
Chew Magna, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| CHEW MAGNA PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1560-1812 | 1560-1812 | 1560-1753 | 1560-1753 | 1560-1812 | 1560-1812 |
| FREG | 1562-1913 | 1560-1913 | 1562-1913 | |||
| MARR | 1605-1886 | |||||
| NBI | 1605-1845 | |||||
| SOPC | 1562-1852 | |||||
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.
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.TMSociety.org - Official website of the Thomas Minor Society which was founded in Chew Magna in 1981 and contains information about St. Andrews parish.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/ChewMagna/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Date accessed and adapted: 15 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.
- ↑ 'Somerset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 18 February 2014.
- ↑ '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.
- ↑ Somerset Online Parish Clerks Genealogy, accessed 22 October 2013.
