Bath St Michael, Somerset Genealogy

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

Parish History
Bath, St. Michael; the parish of St. Michael was until recently annexed to the Abbey rectory; but is now a distinct rectory, and was built at least by the year 1569: the church, was rebuilt in 1835.

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.

Bath Civil Registration District has a complete index of civil registration from 1837-2007 online through the volunteer effort of Bath BMD,England Marriage registrations post 2007 are added as index become available. There are detailed content tables available.

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

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Census Records

 * 1523 - Bath City Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/141 . Copy:.
 * 1524 - Bath City Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/142 . 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/Bath/index.html