West Coker Somerset Family History Guide

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West Coker is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Other places in the parish include:

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Martin

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1697
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COKER (West), a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; between the railways from Yeovil toward Durston and Exeter, 3 miles W by S of Yeovil. It has a post-office under Yeovil. Acres, 1, 299. Real property, £3, 675. Pop., 1, 012. Houses, 206. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £430. Patron, I . Raven, Esq. The church is later English. There are a national school and an alms-house.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

COKER, WEST (St. Martin), a parish, in the union of Yeovil, hundred of Houndsborough, Barwick, and Coker, W. division of Somerset, 3½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Yeovil; containing 1046 inhabitants, and consisting of about 1300 acres. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £12. 19. 7.; patron, R. Raven, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £425, and the glebe comprises 17 acres, with a glebe-house. The church has been enlarged, by the addition of 316 sittings. There is a school, endowed with the interest of a bequest of £100; also almshouses for five persons, founded about 1719, pursuant to the will of William Ruddock.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Somerset, West Coker – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for West Coker, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Somerset, West Coker – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for West Coker, 1602-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Coker (Somersetshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for West Coker, 1608-1639
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Coker (Somersetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts and vestry minutes, 1719-1884
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Coker (Somersetshire)

Parish registers for West Coker, 1697-1901
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Coker (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, West Coker – History ( 1 )
The annals of West Coker
Author: Nathan, Matthew, Sir; Postan, M. M.

England, Somerset, West Coker – Land and property ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for West Coker, 1766-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)

Land tax assessments for West Coker, 1766-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, West Coker – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1728-1840
Author: West Coker (Somerset)

England, Somerset, West Coker – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for West Coker, 1766-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)

Land tax assessments for West Coker, 1766-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)

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: Merston
  • Poor Law Union: Yeovil
  • Hundred: Houndsborough, Barwick and Coker
  • Province: Canterbury