Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset Family History Guide
Stoke sub Hamdon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Alternative names: Stoke under Hamdon
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1593
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Independent/Congregational, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Stoke sub Hamdon Parish Records
An index of parish records of people from Stoke sub Hamdon Somerset. The index includes information from Allegations For Marriage Licences In Hampshire granted by the Bishop of Winchester.
Marriage Allegations
The records below have been extracted from the book Allegations For Marriage Licences In Hampshire granted by the Bishop of Winchester.
Chaffy, Thomas, of Stoke-under-Hamdon, co. Somerset, mason, & Mary Moory, of Portsmouth, w., at Lymington, 18 June, 1737.
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STOKE-UNDER-HAMDON, a parish, with East Stoke and West Stoke villages, in Yeovil district, Somerset; 2 miles S by E of Martock r. station, and 5½ WNW of Yeovil. It has a post-office under Ilminster, and a fair on 23 April. Acres, 1,330. Real property, £4,676; of which £90 are in quarries. Pop., 1,395. Houses, 294. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall. Hamdon Hill, on the boundary, is separately noticed. Glove-making is carried on. Remains exist of Roman entrenchments. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £104. Patron, T. Hawkesworth, Esq. The church is in mixed architecture and cruciform. There are an Independent chapel and a Wesleyan chapel; and the former was built in 1866, and is in the decorated style, with tower and spire.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Somerset Archives & Family History Groups
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Somerset Online Parish Clerk Project
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Roy Parkhouse’s indexed parish register transcriptions
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Prisoners for Trial at Assizes 1810-1905
Prisoners in Ilchester Gaol 1821-44
Somerset Quarter Sessions 1625-1639
Visitations of Somerset 1531 & 1573
Somerset Historical Directories
Somerset Workhouse Admissions and Discharges
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.1
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.2
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.3
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.4
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.5
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.6
Somerset Medieval Wills 1501-1530
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England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008
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Marriage Records
Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988
England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
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Death Records
England Death Records, 1998-2015
England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
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England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
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England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957
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Administration
- County: Somerset
- Civil Registration District: Yeovil
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
- Diocese: Bath and Wells
- Rural Deanery: Ilchester
- Poor Law Union: Yeovil
- Hundred: Tintinhull
- Province: Canterbury