Loxton, Somerset Genealogy

England

Somerset

Somerset Parishes

Loxton

Guide to Loxton, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Loxton, Somerset
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Winterstoke
County	Somerset
Poor Law Union	Axbridge
Registration District	Axbridge
Records begin
Parish registers: 1558
Bishop's Transcripts: 1608
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Axbridge
Diocese	Bath and Wells
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
Location of Archive
Somerset Record Office

Parish History

LOXTON, a village and a parish in Axbridge district, Somerset. The village stands on the river Axe, 3½ miles WNW of Axbridge, and 3½ SE of Weston-super-Mare Junction railway. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

Loxton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FS = FamilySearch - free

FREG = FreeREG - free

FMP = Somerset Baptism, Marriage, Burial Indexes (FindMyPast) - ($)

ANC 1 = Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812 (Ancestry) - ($)

ANC 2 = Somerset, England, Church of England Records (Ancestry) - ($)

TGEN = Somerset Parish Records (TheGenealogist) - ($)

BOYD = England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free

NBI = National Burial Index (FindMyPast) - free

IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free

FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free

FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free

Loxton Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	1538-1975		1538-1973		1538-1991
FREG	1538-1900s		1538-1900s		1538-1900s
FMP	1501-1917		1507-1935		1507-1992
ANC 1	1531-1812		1531-1812		1531-1812
ANC 2	1813-1914		1754-1914		1813-1914
TGEN	1590s-1890s		1590s-1837		1590s-1990s
BOYD			1538-1850
NBI					1538-1999
IGI
FS Catalog PRs
FS Catalog BTs

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Information about the parish may be found on Somerset Online Parish Clerks. Records are also available at the Somerset Archives and Local Studies.

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.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Loxton/index.html

References

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