Charlton Horethorne, Somerset Genealogy

England Somerset



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

The 12th-century Church of St Peter and St Paul acquired its two-stage tower in the late 15th century. It has offset corner buttresses almost to the full height of the tower with small crowning pinnacles. A Romano-British altar was discovered in the churchyard.

The village was originally known just as Charlton, meaning "the farmers settlement" and then known as Charlton Kanville by 1225. In 1084 Horethorn was added coming from "Hareturna" meaning "grey thornbush".

Evidence of early human occupation of the parish is provided by three Bronze-Age barrows and a possible Iron-Age camp on the escarpment near Sigwells, an area to the west of the village where Mesolithic and Romano-British material has also been found. Around 950 the manor belonged to Wynflaed (d. c. 950), and may have passed to her daughter Aethelflaed. It was held by Vitel in 1066 and, by the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, by Robert son of Gerold (d. 1102),who paid an anuual rent of 100 cheeses. In 1439 it was bought by Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, who gave the manor to the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, in 1445.

The Manor Farm House in Horse Lane was built as the local manor house in 1608.

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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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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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Web sites
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