Charlton Horethorne, Somerset Genealogy

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

Parish History
CHARLTON-HORETHORNE, or Canfield (St.Peter And St. Paul), a parish, and formerly a market town, in the union of Wincanton, hundred of Horethorne, E. division of Somerset, 5½ miles (S. W.) from Wincanton.

Additional information:

Charlton Horethorne St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish in the Wincanton deanery of the Diocese of Bath and Wells in the county of Somerset.

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:

Church records on microfilm
Parish registers for Charlton-Horethorne, 1695-1902 Microreproduction of original records housed at the Somerset Record Office, Taunton. Somerset Record Office: D/P CHA.H 2/1/1-6, 2/2/1.

Bishop's transcripts for Charlton-Horethorne, 1599-1863 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Somerset Record Office, Taunton. Somerset Record Office: D/D/Rr 88-88a, 58b

Known Issues
England Vital Records Index - FamilySearch Historical Records known issue Indexing project batch I04481-4 is incorrect. The data entry for place names is incorrect for film 1526463 and affects the parishes of Chard, Somerset, Charlcombe, Somerset,  Charlton Adam, Somerset,  Charlton Mackrell, 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.

Tax records

 * 1524 - Charlton Horethorne Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/146. Copy:.

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/CharltonHorethorne/index.html