Midsomer Norton Somerset Family History Guide

Midsomer Norton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Other places in the parish include: Welton and Clapton.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1697
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1579

Nonconformists include: Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

Midsomer Norton Parish Records

An index of parish records for people from Midsomer Norton 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.

Horwood, John, of Beykon [sic], co. Gloucester, and H.M.S. Reasonable, 26, b., & Elizabeth Clarke, of Norton-Midsomer, co. Somerset, 21, at Portsmouth, 13 Feb., 1782.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MIDSOMER-NORTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Clutton district, Somerset. The village stands in a valley between two branches of the rivulet Somer, 2 miles W of Radstock r. station, and 10 SW of Bath; is a pleasant place, with a handsome market-hall and a few good shops; carries on a large trade in malting and brewing, and a considerable trade in coals; and has a post-office under Bath, a corn and cattle market on the first Tuesday of every month, and a cattle fair on 25 April. The parish contains also the hamlets of Clapton, Downside, Welton, and Clandown. Acres, 3,922. Real property, £10,671; of which £950 are in mines. Pop., 3,836. Houses, 758. The property is much subdivided. The manor of Midsomer-Norton belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall, and that of Welton to Christ Church, Oxford. Norton-Hill, Norton House, Lynch House, and Glenview are chief residences. Coal is largely worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £275. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1830; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; has, in a niche of the tower, a statue of Charles II.; and contains a fine monument to Major Savage, and several mural tablets. The p. curacies of Downside and Clandown are separate benefices. There are Wesleyan chapels in M. N. village, Downside, Clapton, and Clandown; a Primitive Methodist chapel in Clandown; a Roman Catholic colIege, with attached chapel, in Downside; an endowed school with £50 a year, and a reading room and library, in M. N. village; and national schools in Downside and Clandown. The M. N. Wesleyan chapel was built in 1859, at a cost of about £2,800; and is a handsome edifice, in the decorated English style. The Roman Catholic college was established in 1814, and has averagely about 60 students; the chapel attached to it is a fine structure, in the pointed style; and a large observatory belonging to it, on a neighbouring hill, was built in 1861.

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

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

Administration

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