Englishcombe, Somerset Genealogy

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

Parish History
COMBE, ENGLISH, a parish, in the union of Bath, hundred of Wellow, E. division of Somerset, 3 miles (S. W.) from Bath. There are places of worship for Baptists and Lady Huntingdon's Connexion.

The church, dedicated to St Peter, was probably built by Robert de Gournay in the 12th century. The church features Norman arches and leper holes in the porch, which would have enabled lepers to hear the sermon without coming into contact with the rest of the congregation. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.

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

Known Issue England Vital Records Index (FamilySearch Historical Records) has been found to contain entries for Exton, Somerset which are in fact Englishcombe Baptisms.

Examination of the original transcript reveals that two pages of Englishcombe baptisms are included in the final Exton marriage transcripts in the Transcript series. This was not identiifed during microfilm acquisition or subsequent indexing of the transcript pages and therefore the place data entry for these events is incorrect and awaits future correction.

The source information for the parish is derived from Bishop's Transcripts only and researchers are advised to refer to the Somerset Online Parish Clerk website for Englishcombe events.

The Genealogical Society of Utah has no microfilm holding for Englishcombe and the Somerset online Parish Clerk website has transcribed the parish registers.

Somerset Online Parish Clerks
Contributor include here any information about the transcripts for the parish and links to the Online Parish Clerk material.

Census records

 * 1524 - English Combe Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/143 . Copy:.

Poor Law Unions
Bath Poor Law Union, Somerset

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/EnglishCombe/index.html