St Audries, Somerset Genealogy
Guide to St Audries, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
St Audries, Somerset | |
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Type | Ancient Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Williton and Freemanners |
County | Somerset |
Poor Law Union | Williton |
Registration District | Williton |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1558 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1599 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Dunster |
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
St Audrie was one of the names of this administrative unit which we associate with West Quantoxhead.
QUANTOXHEAD (West), a parish in Williton district, Somerset; on the coast, under the end of the Quantock hills, 1¾ mile E by N of Williton railway station, and 2¾ E by S of Watchet.[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
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
References
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72. Date accessed and adapted: 25 September 2013.