South Barrow, Somerset Genealogy
Guide to South Barrow, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
South Barrow, Somerset | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Catsash |
County | Somerset, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Wincanton |
Registration District | Wincanton |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1678 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1605 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Cary |
Diocese | Bath and Wells |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Dean and Chapter of Wells |
Location of Archive | |
Somerset Archives and Local Studies | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BARROW (South), a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset; adjacent to the Wilts and Somerset railway, 4 miles SW of Castle-Cary.[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]
South Barrow, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
SOUTH BARROW PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1605-1812 | 1580-1911 | 1607-1812 | |||
FS | 1605-1636, 1749-1786 | |||||
JOIN | 1580-1753 | |||||
MARR | 1580-1758 | |||||
NBI | 1770-1812 | |||||
SOPC | 1679-1812 | 1682-1911 | 1678-1812 | |||
WCGEN | 1580-1753 |
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.
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/SouthBarrow/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72. Date accessed and adapted: 25 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Somerset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 17 October 2013.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Somerset, England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 21 October 2013.
- ↑ Somerset Coverage, The Joiner Marriage Index, 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.
- ↑ Somerset Online Parish Clerks Genealogy, accessed 22 October 2013.
- ↑ West Country Genealogy, accessed 22 October 2013.
Contributor: add any additional relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.