Walcot St Stephen, Somerset Genealogy

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

To see and print out a list of all Bath Abbey's associated and attached chapels, and ecclesiastical parishes, view "A Comprehensive List of Bath Abbey's Chapels and District Chapels".

Parish History
WALCOT St Stephen, Lansdown was one of several chapels of ease standing within the parish boundary of Walcot St Swithin, and was built by the year 1845 to ease the large population demands in the ancient parish boundary. It was in the union of Bath, partly within the city of Bath, and partly in the hundred of Bath-Forum, E. division of Somerset.

From the noted topographer Samuel A. Lewis, here's a mid-19th century historical perpsective:

"WALCOT (St Swithin), a parish, in the union of Bath, partly within the city of Bath, and partly in the hundred of Bath-Forum, east division of Somerset; containing 26,210 inhabitants. The parish includes those parts of the city lying on the north, north-east, and north-west sides of the parish of Bath St Michael; also some handsome ranges of buildings on the declivities of Lansdown and Beacon hills."

The parish of St Swithin, Walcot held ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the following chapels (including St Stephens):


 * Kensington Chapel - 1795 (a district chapelry)
 * St Mary's Chapel, Queen-square - 1735 (see also Bath Abbey)
 * Walcot Avon Street Chapel - by 1825 (formerly a nonconformist chapel)
 * Walcot All Saints, Lansdown Place - 1794
 * Walcot Christ Church - 1798
 * Walcot [Holy] Trinity Church, St James' Street - 1840 (a district chapel)
 * Walcot St Stephen, Lansdown - 1845
 * Walcot St Saviour - 1832

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.

Bath Civil Registration District has a complete index of civil registration from 1837-2007 online through the volunteer effort of Bath BMD,England Marriage registrations post 2007 are added as index become available. There are detailed content tables available.

Church records
Walcot St Stephen parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Information about the parish may be found on Somerset Online Parish Clerks. Records are also available at the Somerset Archives and Local Studies.

Somerset Online Parish Clerks
Contributor include here any information about the transcripts for the parish and links to the Online Parish Clerk material.

Poor Law Unions
Bath Poor Law Union, 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
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/Walcot/index.html