Zeals, Wiltshire Genealogy

England   Wiltshire

Parish History
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ZEALS, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Mere, Hindon and S. divisions of Wilts, 2 miles (W. by S.) from Mere; containing 588 inhabitants. This place lies on the borders of the county of Somerset, and on the road from Bradford to Wincanton. At Zeals-Green is a church dedicated to St. Martin, built on a site given by the Duke of Somerset, and consecrated in October 1846. The living is a perpetual curacy; patron, the Vicar of Mere.

From: 'Zeal-Monachorum - Zennor', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 742. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51439 Date accessed: 24 March 2011.

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
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Census records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Wiltshire 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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