Martock, Somerset Family History Guide
Martock is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Other places in the parish include: Witcombe, Stapleton, Milton, Coat, Bower Hinton with Hurst, and Bower Hinton and Hurst.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Methodist.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Martock Parish Registers
Martock Marriages 1559-1812 Somerset Parish Registers Marriages Volume 3 Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and D. M. Ross. Publisher: Phillimore & Co. Date of publication: 1901. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MARTOCK, a village, a parish, a hundred, and a subdistrict, in Yeovil district, Somerset. The village stands near the river Parret and on the Fosse way, adjacent to the Durston and Yeovil branch of the Bristol and Exeter railway, 6½ miles NW by W of Yeovil; was once a market town; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, a head post office, two good inns, a market-cross, a church, two dissenting chapels, a national school, a grammar school founded in 1661, and charities £20. The market-cross consists of base and steps of old date, and a surmounting fluted column of newer date, bearing a sun-dial, a gilt ball, and a vane. The church is later English, of fine character; comprises nave, aisles, transepts, and chancel, with a tower; has a roof of open wood-work; and was recently restored. Pinnacled archways, of the year 1627, gave entrance to the churchyard. The manor-house, an edifice of the 14th century, now divided into separate tenements, but still in good preservation, adjoins the churchyard; and the hall of it has an open timber roof, and some richly carved corbels. The dissenting chapels are for Independents and Baptists. A fair is held on 21 Aug. The parish contains also the chapelry of Long-Load, and the hamlets of Ash, Bower-Hinton-with-Hurst, Coat, Milton, Stapleton, and Witcombe. Acres, 7,302. Real property, £20,383. Pop., 3,155. Houses, 619. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to J. Goodden, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £450. Patron, the Treasurer of Wells Cathedral. The vicarages of Ash and Long Load are separate benefices.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
England and Wales Delineated Thomas Dugdale 1835
Name of Place: Martock; County: Somerset; Number of Miles from: Ilchester – 5; S. Petherton – 2; Yeovil – 7; Dist. Lond. – 130; Population: 2841.
Martock. Here is a spacious market-place, near which is a handsome fluted column, a model of the celebrated pillar of Trajan, at Wilton-house, the seat of the Earl of Pembroke .
Market, Wednesday and Saturday. – Fairs, second Thursday in October for hogs and pedlers’ ware.
Source: England and Wales Delineated by Thomas Dugdale assisted by William Burnett; published by Tallis & Co., Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey, 1835.
Parish Records
Sarah Hawkins Genealogy Site – Martock Somerset
FamilySearch
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: Martock
- Province: Canterbury