Saltford, Somerset Genealogy
Guide to Saltford, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Saltford, Somerset | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Keynsham |
| County | Somerset |
| Poor Law Union | Keynsham |
| Registration District | Keynsham |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1709 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1599 | |
| 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]
SALTFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Keynsham, E. division of Somerset, 5 ¼ miles (W. N. W.) from Bath.[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]
Saltford, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| SALTFORD PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1599-1908 | 1599-1913 | 1605-1908 | |||
| MARR | 1713-1746 | |||||
| NBI | 1813-1859 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| SOPC | 1599-1908 | 1599-1912 | 1605-1944 | |||
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 Unions[edit | edit source]
Keynsham Poor Law Union, Somerset
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/Saltford/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 5-11. Date accessed and adapted: 17 April 2013.
- ↑ 'Somerset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 13 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.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ Somerset Online Parish Clerks Genealogy, accessed 22 October 2013.
