Theale Somerset Family History Guide

Theale is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1828 from Wedmore Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Newtown.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1828
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Meare
• Godney
• Wedmore
• Rodney Stoke
• Westbury
• Henton

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THEALE, a chapelry in Wedmore parish, Somerset; 4¼ miles NNE of Shapwick r. station, and 5½ W of Wells. It was constituted in 1844; and it has a post-office under Wells, Somerset. Pop., 743. Houses, 173. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Wedmore. The church is modern.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

THEALE, a chapelry, in the parish of Wedmore, union of Axbridge, hundred of Bempstone, E. division of Somerset, 7 miles (S. S. E.) from Axbridge. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £100; patron, the Vicar of Wedmore.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

Maps

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

Administration

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