Shepton Montague, Somerset Genealogy

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

Parish History
SHEPTON-MONTAGUE (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wincanton, hundred of Norton-Ferris ,E. division of Somerset, 2½ miles (S.) from Burton.

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:

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 * bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | FREG = FreeREG - free
 * bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | MARR = Somerset Marriages (findmypast) - (£)
 * bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)
 * bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | MARR = Somerset Marriages (findmypast) - (£)
 * bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)
 * bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)

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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/SheptonMontague/index.html