Somerset

Family history & genealogy records

Somerset family history resources and links to online records including parish records, BMDs, burials, wills, local history and much more.

Births, Marriages & Deaths

Bath BMD
Over 490,000 births, 191,000 marriages and 347,000 deaths available to search and view for free.
Somerset Parish Records
Baptisms, marriages and burials from the 1500s to the 1900s.

Census 1841–1921
Search census records from 1841–1921, plus the 1939 Register all at once. There are nearly half a million records for Somerset in the register.
FreeCen
A good, but not complete, selection of free records to search and view.

Prisoners for Trial at Assizes 1810–1905
A searchable index to the printed calendars of prisoners for trial at the assize courts, containing over 11,000 entries for Somerset.
Prisoners in Ilchester Gaol 1821–1844 Archived
Prisoners born or whose last abode was in Frome Hundred, extracted from the searchable list of the Gaol Registers on the Somerset Record Office.
Somerset Quarter Sessions
This index allows you to search and view over 62,000 records.
Somerset Quarter Sessions 1625–1639

RootsChat Somerset
A forum with many members willing to help other researchers.
Somerset & Dorset FHS
Aims to help anyone with ancestors from either or both counties. Membership gives access to a number of records, indexes and a quarterly journal, The Greenwood Tree.
Weston-super-Mare & District FHS

Bath Burial Index
A compilation of information on burials for 50 of Bath's cemeteries and graveyards. Over 240,000 entries from 1660 to present, plus over 30,000 images of surviving memorials.
Somerset Electoral Registers 1832–1914
Somerset Surnames 1881
Somerset Workhouse Admissions and Discharges
Almost 80,000 entries from the 14 Somerset Union Workhouses, from 1836 onwards.