Yarlington Somerset Family History Guide
Yarlington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Other places in the parish include: Lower Woolston.
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1655
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Yarlington Parish Records
An index of parish records for people from Yarlington 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.
Cornish, Richard, of Woolston, co. Somerset [sic, ? Woolstone or Wollastone, co. Gloucester], gent., 21, b., & Elizabeth Batcheler, of Andover, 21, sp., at A., 11 Sep., 1799.
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
YARLINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Wincanton district, Somerset; 3 miles SSE of Castle-Cary r. station. It has a post-office under Bath, and a fair on 26 Aug. Acres, 1,207. Real property, £2,625. Pop., 246. Houses, 54. The manor belongs to T. E. Rogers, Esq. Remains of an ancient camp are on a hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £252. Patron, the Rev. R. G. Rogers. The church is early English.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
YARLINGTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wincanton, hundred of Bruton, E. division of Somerset, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Castle-Cary; containing 297 inhabitants. The parish comprises about 1240 acres : there are some quarries of stone, for inferior building, and for repairing the roads, and many of the poorer inhabitants are employed in the making of gloves.
A fair is held on the 26th of August, for horses, cattle, and sheep. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £16. 1. 3., and in the gift of the incumbent, the Rev. Robert G. Rogers: the tithes have been commuted for £244, and the glebe comprises 38 acres. The church has an embattled tower on the south side. On the south-west declivity of Godshill, in the parish, is a double-intrenched camp, from which is an extensive prospect; and near the church are the remains of an ancient mansion that belonged to the Berkeley family.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
Somerset Archives & Family History Groups
Weston-super-Mare & District FHS
Somerset Online Parish Clerk Project
Newspaper Archives
Bath Chronicle Newspaper 1770-1800
Forums
Somerset
Roy Parkhouse’s indexed parish register transcriptions
Somerset Pages Parish Register Transcripts
West Somerset Parish Register Transcriptions
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
Records for England
Births and Baptism Records
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Great Britain, Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977
England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Marriage Records
Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988
England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Death Records
England Death Records, 1998-2015
England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Great Britain Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988
England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957
England and Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1640-1660
Non-Conformist Records
England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977
Census
England and Wales Census, 1841
England and Wales Census, 1851
England and Wales Census, 1861
England and Wales Census, 1871
England and Wales Census, 1881
England and Wales Census, 1891
England and Wales Census, 1901
England and Wales Census, 1911
Occupations
United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941
War and Conflict
Great Britain, War Office Registers, 1772-1935
United Kingdom, Chelsea Pensioners’ Service Records, 1760-1913
United Kingdom, Royal Hospital Chelsea: Discharge Documents of Pensioners 1760-1887 (WO 122)
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
United Kingdom, Militia Service Records, 1806-1915
United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
United Kingdom, World War I Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Records, 1917-1920
Newspaper Archives
British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices
British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries
Administration
- County: Somerset
- Civil Registration District: Wincanton
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
- Diocese: Bath and Wells
- Rural Deanery: Cary
- Poor Law Union: Wincanton
- Hundred: Bruton
- Province: Canterbury