Somerset

Stogursey Parish Church submitted by Guinevere

Somerset

County town: Taunton

Other major towns: Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater

Land of the Summer People, the scenery is outstanding, from the rolling hills of The Mendips, The Quantocks, The Blackdowns and The Brendans to the plains of Exmoor and the Somerset Levels.

Contrary to popular belief, the majority of Exmoor is in the county of Somerset, not Devon!

Tourist attractions include the Caves at Cheddar & Wookey Hole, the beautiful Cathedral City of Wells, the smallest city in the UK, and the spiritual town of Glastonbury with its world famous Tor. Somerset is the home of The true English carnival, a spectacle for 400 years.

Somerset gave the world Cheddar cheese & cider, The Worzels & Acker Bilk. King Alfred burned the cakes here & arguably King Arthur lived here.

Register Office Contact Details

Somerset Registration Service Website and online certificate applications: Registration Service

Bath BMD has birth marriages and deaths from 1837 and the old Avon area of Somerset.
Births include mother's maiden name and certificates can be ordered directly from them.

• Bath Births Marriages & Deaths

Bridgwater

Morgan House
Mount Street
Bridgwater
TA6 3ER
Tel 01278 422527
E-mail bridgwaterro@somerset.gov.uk

Shepton Mallett

19B, Commercial Road
Shepton Mallet
BA4 5BU
Tel 01749 343928
E-mail sheptonro@somerset.gov.uk

Taunton

Flook House
Belvedere Road
Taunton
TA1 1BT
Tel 01823 282251
E-mail tauntonro@somerset.gov.uk

Williton

2 Long Street
Williton
TA4 4QN
Tel 01984 633116
E-mail willitonro@somerset.gov.uk

Yeovil

Maltravers House
Petters Way
Yeovil
BA20 1SP
Tel 01935 411230
E-mail yeovilro@somerset.gov.uk

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• Within cycling distance (20 miles) of Bruton:Nessmcd

Links

• Somerset Studies Library

• County Record Office

• Library Link

• Somerset and Dorset Family History Society

• Rootschat Somerset Board

• Roy Parkhouse's Genealogy Homepage

Local History Society

• Local History Societies

• Weston-Super-Mare FHS

• Bristol and Avon FHS

OPC

• Somerset OPC

Archives

• IGI Somerset

• West Somerset Parish Registers

• PIGOT'S DIRECTORY of SOMERSET c1844, Index

• Bath record office extracts from Bath Georgian newspapers 1780-1800

• Colins Genealogy Pages, transcribed Parish Registers

• Counties and places included in the FreeREG Project

• Parish Register Transcriptions, Online Marriage Registers for some of Somerset

• Somerset Pages, Some more Parish Register Transcripts for parts of Somerset

• GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy BMDs for Minehead in particular from late 1700's through to 1901

• Othery Parish Registers - Transcribed by Amy L. Lunde Some transcriptions for Othery

• Rootsweb Here are some more excellent parish transcriptions

• War Memorial Site transcriptions for the old Avon area

• Southwest England Genealogical Indices Includes some Newspaper Extracts, Parish records and Inquests

Family and social history

• Bristol’s Lost Pubs

• Somerset & Dorset Surnames and Queries Index

• Bristol Companies, history and information

• The Larder family of Somerset

• Somerset Workhouses

Maps & Photographs

• A Directory of Bristol Photographers 1852-1972 Useful for dating old photos

Countywide interest

• Somerset County

• Somerset Towns & Parishes

• Somerset Genweb

• Somerset Registration Service Apply for a Somerset birth, death or marriage certificate here.

Specific Town Village interest

• Aller

• Bridgwater Grammar Schools

• Bridgwater Genealogy

• Loxton Village Website

• High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records

• The Portbury Hundred

• SHIPS IN PORT AT HIGHBRIDGE, PORTISHEAD & BRIDGWATER, SOMERSET 1881.

• Sage Family History - Nailsea

• Somerset coalfield and Midsummer Norton area

• Horsington Genealogy Parish Register transcriptions and lots more!

• Rooksbridge and East Brent

• Wedmore Genealogy Pages

Wellington Union Workhouse

• Contact Somerset Archive & Records Office
• for Births & Deaths in Workhouse.
• Indoor Relief up to 1870.
• They do not have Admission or
• Discharge Registers for Wellington Union.

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