Loxton, Somerset Genealogy
Guide to Loxton, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Loxton, Somerset | |
|---|---|
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Winterstoke |
| County | Somerset, England Genealogy |
| 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 Archives and Local Studies | |
Contents
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.[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
Loxton, Somerset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| JOIN = The Joiner Marriage Index - (£)[2] | |||||
| MARR = Somerset Marriages (findmypast) - (£)[3] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[4] |
| Loxton, Somerset Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| JOIN | 1754-1836 | |||||
| MARR | 1560-1754 | |||||
| NBI | 1558-1892 | |||||
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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/Loxton/index.html
References
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72. Date accessed and adapted: 23 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Somerset Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 18 October 2013.
- ↑ '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.
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