Great Somerford, Wiltshire Genealogy

England   Wiltshire  Wiltshire Parishes

Parish History
SOMERFORD, GREAT (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union and hundred of Malmesbury, Malmesbury and Kingswood, and N. divisions of Wilts, 7 miles (N. by E.) from Chippenham. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 129-133. Date accessed: 16 September 2013. http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51286#s27

SOMERFORD (Great or Broad), a parish, with a village and a hamlet, in Malmsbury district, Wiltshire on the river Avon, 7 miles NNE of Chippenham railway station.

Civil Registration
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
Great Somerford parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Wiltshire 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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