Maiden Bradley Somerset Family History Guide
Maiden Bradley is an Ancient Parish partly in Somerset and partly in Wiltshire.
Alternative names: Maiden Bradley, Maiden Bradley with Yarnfield
Other places in the parish include: Yarnfield.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1662
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608-1609; 1623
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MAIDEN-BRADLEY, a village and a parish in the district of Mere; the village and most of the parish in Wilts, the rest of the parish in Somerset. The village stands 4¼ miles N of Mere, and 5 ESE of Witham r. station; occupies high ground, overlooked by higher but isolated hills; and has a post office under Bath, and a picturesque inn. The parish includes, as its Somerset portion, the hamlet of Yarnfield; and comprises altogether 4,546 acres. Real property of the Wilts portion, 5,118. Pop., 592. Houses, 119. Real property of Yarnfield, returned with Kilmington and Norton-Ferris. Pop., 61. Houses, 13. The property belongs to the Duke of Somerset; and Maiden-Bradley House is the Duke’s seat. An hospital for leprous women was founded here, in the time of Stephen, or in that of Henry II., by Mauasser Bisset; was changed, in 1190, into an Angustinian priory; was given, at the dissolution, to the Seymours; and is now represented by some remains, incorporated with a farm-house. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury-Value, £121. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church contains monuments of the Seymours, and is good. Charities, £13.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
White Benjamin, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, farmer, June 7, 1823.
Parish Registers
Marriages Out of Parish
| Details | Place of Marriage |
|---|---|
| Joseph Reddish, of Maiden Bradley, & Lucy Clark 17 Nov. 1698 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Matthew Walter & Mary Baily, of Maiden Bradley 19 Dec. 1704 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Richard Sledge & Ann Ashley, of Maiden Bradley 7 July 1707 | Mere Wiltshire |
| William Gifford & Mary Clinton, of Maiden Bradley 11 Sept. 1712 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Thomas Coward & Rebekah Allwood, both of Maiden Bradley 7 Apr. 1713 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Edward Parsons & Jane Turner, of Maiden Bradley 28 May 1713 | Mere Wiltshire |
| John Snook & Martha Wansey, of Maiden Bradley 28 May 1713 | Mere Wiltshire |
| William Coward & Mary England, of Maiden Bradley 7 Feb. 1719/20 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Roger Davis, of Wanstrow, Somerset, & Melior Cox, of Maiden Bradley 17 Oct. 1720 | Mere Wiltshire |
| James Bradshew, of Stoke Trister, & Mary Cross, of Maiden Bradley 12 Apr. 1721 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Joseph Stockham & Mary Wansey, [of] Maiden Bradley 31 Dec. 1722 | Mere Wiltshire |
| John Sims & Mary Parsons, of Maiden Bradley 30 Jan. 1722/3 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Thomas Coward & Mary Holland, of Maiden Bradley 30 May 1723 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Robert Edwards & Sarah Finey, of Maiden Bradley 4 May 1724 | Mere Wiltshire |
| John Corp, of Maiden Bradley, & Elizabeth Butt, of Purse Candle 6 Oct. 1728 | Mere Wiltshire |
| John Pitman, of Bath, & Edith White, of Maiden Bradley 11 Feb. 1730/1 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Philip Frie & Sarah Mog, of Maiden Bradley 10 Aug. 1733 | Mere Wiltshire |
| Robert Godwin, of Hazelber, & Martha Bailey, of Maiden Bradley 3 Nov. 1737 | Mere Wiltshire |
| George Hooper, of Maiden Bradley, & Judith Longyear, of M. 1 Aug. 1743 | Mere Wiltshire |
| James Crouch, of Froom, co. Somerset, & Ann Bayley, of Maiden Bradley 7 Aug. 1748 | Mere Wiltshire |
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Somerset
- Civil Registration District: Mere
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Wylye
- Poor Law Union: Mere
- Hundred: Mere
- Province: Canterbury