Thorne Coffin Somerset Family History Guide

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Thorne Coffin is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Alternative names: Thorn Coffin, Thorne

Parish church: St. Andrew

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1695
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THORNE-COFFIN, a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; 2¾ miles NW of Yeovil r. station. Post town, Yeovil. Acres, 410. Rated property, £1,039. Pop., 99. Houses, 20. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £200. Patron, the Rev. H. Helyar. The church is ancient but good.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

THORN-COFFIN (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Yeovil, hundred of Tintinhull, W. division of Somerset, 2½ miles (N. W. by W.) from Yeovil; containing 87 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £5. 5. 2½.; net income, £200; patron, the Rev. W. Sabine.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Maps

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

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