Brewham South with Brewham North, Somerset Genealogy

England Somerset  Somerset Parishes

Parish History
BREWHAM (South), a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset: on the Wilts and Somerset railway; 2½ miles NE by N of Bruton. It has a post office under Bath. Acres, 2,671. Real property, with North Brewham and Eastrip, £6,394. Pop., 519. Houses, 121. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage, with North Brewham, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £102. Patron, Sir H. Hoare, Bart. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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:

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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 - South Brewham Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/146. Copy:.


 * 1524 - North Brewham Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/146. Copy:.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain