Timsbury, Somerset Genealogy

England Somerset  Somerset Parishes

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

Parish History
TIMSBURY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Clutton, hundred of Chew, E. division of Somerset, 8 miles (S. W.) from Bath.Here are places of worship for Wesleyans, Independents, and Baptists. The parish is situated about 1¼ mile from the road between Bath and Wells.

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:

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 - Timsbury Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/143. Copy:.
 * 1524 - Timsbury Lay Subsidy, E 179/169/149. 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

Web sites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Timsbury/index.html