Weston-super-Mare St John the Baptist, Somerset Genealogy

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Guide to Weston-super-Mare St John the Baptist, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Weston-super-Mare St John the Baptist, Somerset
Type Ancient parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Winterstoke
County Somerset, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union Axbridge
Registration District Axbridge
Records begin
Parish registers: 1668
Bishop's Transcripts: 1599
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Axbridge
Diocese Bath and Wells
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
Location of Archive
Somerset Archives and Local Studies
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Parish History[edit | edit source]

WESTON-SUPER-MARE (St. John), a parish, in the union of Axbridge, hundred of Winterstoke, E. division of Somerset, 9 miles (N. W.) from Cross. An additional church, dedicated to Emmanuel, and situated near the railway station, at the entrance of the town, was consecrated in October 1847. There are places of worship for Independents 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]

Weston-super-Mare St John the Baptist, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

AC = Somerset, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (Ancestry) - (£)[2][3][4][5]
BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[6]
FREG = FreeREG - free[7]
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[8]
JOIN = The Joiner Marriage Index - (£)[9]
MARR = Somerset Marriages (findmypast) - (£)[10]
NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[11]
PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[12]
WESTON SUPER MARE ST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

 Indexes Images Indexes Images Indexes Images
AC 1662-1812 1662-1812 1662-1753 1662-1753 1662-1812 1662-1812
BOYD
1682-1837

FREG 1668-1859
1682-1850
1676-1851
IGI
1682-1837

JOIN
1682-1837

MARR
1682-1754

NBI

1676-1963
PALL
1790-1837

Weston Super Mare Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

WESTON SUPER MARE HOLY TRINITY PARISH Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

 Indexes Images Indexes Images Indexes Images
FREG 1861-1902
1862-1900

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.


Genealogy from Periodicals [edit | edit source]

Mattravers, Philip. The Matravers Family.

History and Family Tree of the Mat(t)ravers family of Joseph and Elizabeth Matravers of Donyatt, Taunton, Weston-Super-Mare and Chippenham. Article covers 1780-1929, and is to be found in The Family History Journal of the South East Hampshire Genealogical Society, no. 5, February 1975, pages 100-102, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2f

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/WestonSuperMare/index.html


References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Date accessed and adapted: 27 SEptember 2013.
  2. ↑ 'Somerset, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1531-1812,' Ancestry, accessed 26 July 2016.
  3. ↑ 'Somerset, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913,' Ancestry, accessed 26 July 2016.
  4. ↑ 'Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914,' Ancestry, accessed 26 July 2016.
  5. ↑ 'Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1914,' Ancestry, accessed 26 July 2016.
  6. ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
  7. ↑ 'Somerset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 17 October 2013.
  8. ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Somerset, England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 21 October 2013.
  9. ↑ 'Somerset Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 18 October 2013.
  10. ↑ 'Somerset Marriages', findmypast (WayBack Machine), accessed 29 April 2014.
  11. ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 17 October 2013.
  12. ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
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