Frome Holy Trinity, Somerset Genealogy

England Somerset  Somerset Parishes

Parish History
FROME, or Frome-Selwood Holy Trinity was achapelry, built in the year 1838, and in theparish of Frome St John the Baptist, the market-town, and borough, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Frome, E. of Somerset, 25 miles (N. E.) from Ilchester, and 105 miles (W. by S.) from London. Another district chapelry, called Christ Church was also built in this large township. There were places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, andPresbyterians. The poor law union comprises 29 parishes or places.

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
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Probate records
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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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