Elm, Somerset Genealogy

England Somerset

Parish History
Elm St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset. Other places in the parish include: Little Elm and Chantry.

ELM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Frome, E. division of Somerset, 2¼ miles (N. W. by W.) from Frome; containing 421 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the river Frome, and comprises by admeasurement 895 acres. The manufacture of woollen-cloth is extensively carried on in the vicinity; and on the banks of the Frome are various mills, and some manufactories of scythes, spades, reap-hooks, and other agricultural implements. Abundance of stone of good quality for building is found. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £9. 13. 6½.; patron and incumbent, the Rev. Charles T. Griffith, D.D. The tithes have been commuted for £110, and the glebe comprises 134 acres. The church is an ancient structure with subsequent additions, and has a finely enriched Norman arch at the western entrance. Near the northern bank of a rivulet, and on the edge of a precipice, are the remains of a Roman intrenchment, called Tedbury, in which a vessel containing coins of the Lower Empire was found in 1691.

From: 'Elloughton - Elmsett', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 161-164. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50945 Date accessed: 13 March 2011.

ELM, LITTLE, a hamlet, partly in the parish of Elm, but chiefly in that of Whatley, union and hundred of Frome, E. division of the county of Somerset; containing 117 inhabitants.

From: 'Elloughton - Elmsett', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 161-164. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50945 Date accessed: 13 March 2011.

Civil Registration
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Probate records
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