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
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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 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

Reference
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