Seavington St Michael, Somerset Genealogy
Guide to Seavington St Michael, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Seavington St Michael, Somerset | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | South Petherton |
| County | Somerset |
| Poor Law Union | Chard |
| Registration District | Chard |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1678 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Crewkerne |
| Diocese | Bath and Wells |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Taunton |
| Location of Archive | |
| Somerset Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
SEAVINGTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Chard, hundred of South Petherton, W. division of Somerset, 3½ miles (E.) from Ilminster, containing the chapelry of Dinnington.[1]
Resources
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
Seavington St Michael, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FREG = FreeREG - free[2] | |||||
| MARR = Somerset Marriages (findmypast) - (£)[3] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[4] |
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images |
| FREG | 1599-1674, 1654-1901 | |
1623, 1695-1898 | |
1599-1623, 1656-1905 | |
| MARR | |
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Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/SeavingtonStMichael/index.html
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Date accessed and adapted: 15 May 2013.
- ↑ 'Somerset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 13 February 2014.
- ↑ '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.
