Queen Charlton Somerset Family History Guide

Queen Charlton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1741 from a chapelry in Keynsham Ancient Parish. 

Alternative names: Queen Charleton

Parish church: St. Margaret

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1562
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHARLETON (Queen), a parish in Keynsham district, Somerset; near Wans Dyke, 2 miles SW of Keynsham r. station, and 5 SE of Bristol. Post Town, Keynsham, under Bristol. Acres, 955. Real property, £1,956. Pop., 141. Houses, 31. The property is all in one estate. The manor belonged to Keynsham Abbey; and was given by Henry VII. to Queen Catherine. The gateway of the Abbey-grange, a Norman structure, still stands. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £65. Patron, Mrs. Dickinson. The church was recently restored.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CHARLETON, QUEEN (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union and hundred of Keynsham, E. division of Somerset, 2¾ miles (N. N. E.) from Pensford; containing 190 inhabitants. This parish obtained its distinguishing appellation from having been settled on Catherine Parr, Queen of Henry VIII. The salubrity of the air made it a place of considerable resort, particularly in 1574, when the plague swept away 2000 persons at Bristol. The parish comprises 952 acres: the road to Bath formerly intersected the village. A fair, granted by Elizabeth, on her progress through the place, in 1573, is held on the 20th of July. The living is a vicarage not in charge, in the patronage of Miss Dickenson, to whom also the impropriation belongs; net income, £48. In 1760, Mary Freeman left £500, producing £25 per annum, for clothing and teaching twenty boys.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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