Brislington, Somerset Family History Guide

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Brislington or Brislington St Luke is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1786 from a chapelry in Keynsham Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1566
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Independent/Congregational.

Adjacent Parishes

Brislington St Luke Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers for Bristol.

Brislington St Luke, Bristol Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Brislington, St Anne, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, 1909-1922

Brislington, St Christopher, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, 1921

Brislington St Luke, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1904

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRISLINGTON, a parish in Keynsham district, Somerset; on the river Avon and the Great Western railway, 2½ miles SE of Bristol. It has a post-office under Bristol. Acres, 2,393. Real property, £9,697. Pop., 1,489. Houses, 218. The property is divided among a few. Brislington House is a large and well-arranged lunatic asylum. Brislington tunnel, on the line of the railway, goes through the shale and sandstone of the coal-measures; is 3,148 feet long; and has four ventilating shafts. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £170. Patron, F. L. Popham, Esq. The church is good; and was not long ago enlarged. There are a national school and charities £12.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Keynsham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Bath and Wells (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Redcliffe and Bedminster, Post-1846 – Bath
  • Poor Law Union: Keynsham
  • Hundred: Keynsham
  • Province: Canterbury