Broadway, Somerset Family History Guide

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Broadway is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Other places in the parish include: Rapps and Capland.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1678
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Broadway Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers.

Broadway Somerset Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1531-1812

Broadway Somerset Church of England Baptisms 1813-1914

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Broadway Somerset Marriage Registers Bonds and Allegations 1754-1914

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Broadway Somerset Church of England Burials 1813-1914

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BROADWAY, a village and a parish in Chard district, Somerset. The village stands near the Chard canal, and near the Chard, Ilminster, and Taunton railway, 2 miles NW of Ilminster r. station; took its name from a Roman way across its site, and through Neroche forest; and has a fair on 14 Sept. The parish includes also the tythings of Capland and Rapps; and its Post Town is Ilminster. Acres, 2,072. Real property, £2,861. Pop., 431. Houses, 89. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £167. Patron, the Rev. Dr. W. Palmer. The church is ancient and cruciform. There are an Independent chapel; and charities £23.

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

Maps

National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Chard
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Taunton
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Crewkerne
  • Poor Law Union: Chard
  • Hundred: Abdick and Bulstone
  • Province: Canterbury