Butleigh, Somerset Family History Guide

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Butleigh is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset. Baltonsborough is a chapelry of Butleigh.

Other places in the parish include: Butleigh Wootton.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1578
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Butleigh Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers.

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

Butleigh 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.

Butleigh 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.

Butleigh Somerset Church of England Burials 1813-1914

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUTLEIGH, a parish in Wells district, Somerset; on the river Brue, 4 miles SSE of Glastonbury r. station. It includes the hamlet of Butleigh-Wootton; and has a post-office under Glastonbury. Acres, 4,467. Real property, £8,139. Pop., 1,038. Houses, 212. The property is divided among a few.

Butleigh Court is the seat of R. Neville Grenville, Esq.; was recently rebuilt in part, from designs by Buckler; has a saloon 45 feet by 25; and contains some fine portraits. Butleigh Hill is prominent; and blue lias is found. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Baltonsborough, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £380. Patron, R. Neville Grenville, Esq. The church is decorated English; and was restored in 1851, and enlarged in 1859. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £25.

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: Wells
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Glastonbury
  • Poor Law Union: Wells
  • Hundred: Whitley
  • Province: Canterbury