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Welcome to the Somerset Team Page!
The Somerset Team is part of the Counties Team of the England Project.
Team Leaders: Ian Speed and Todd Gilbert
Somerset Team Members: Jacquelyn Alvord | Brad Cunningham | SD | Alison Davies | Todd Gilbert | Wendy Jones | LK LaPlante | Dewey Ledford | Steph Meredith | Shelagh Mason-Ebenal | Susan O’Callaghan | Mike Pickup | Lucy Sarson | Cherryl Schmidt | Weldon Smith | Ian Speed | Jason Tilley
Somerset Resources: Somerset Research Resources Page
Goal
The Somerset Team covers the county of Somerset in South West England. Somerset borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west.
Our team aims to make all Somerset profiles the best they can be. Our goal is to leave a lasting legacy for future generations, and to help current researchers in their quest to learn about their family history, bringing them one step closer to discovering the myriad of people it has taken for them to draw breath.
Team interests
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| Jacquelyn Alvord
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| Michael Angell
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| Brad Cunningham
| Juleff, Rainier families
| Love working on unsourced profiles of Somerset. Starting to learn unconnected profiles.
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| S D
| Sheppard, Bendall, Morris, Stafford, Smith, Duffield, Richards families - especially those in and around Bath
| Fleshing out and improving the profiles of Somerset ancestors and those related to them
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| Alison Davies
| Seymours, Goulds, Sweets. Somerset Coal Miners
| Adding my direct line ancestors
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| Todd Gilbert
| Stradling in SW Counties, Wales, and everywhere else they pop up; Coysgarne in SW Counties and London
| Suggestions for Somerset and creating/connecting Somerset surname clusters
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| Wendy Jones
| Sage & Dando families in High Littleton & Paulton
| Unsourced profiles in Somerset & some work on Somerset Notables
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| LK LaPlante
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| Dewey Ledford
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| Shelagh Mason-Ebenal
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| Steph Meredith
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| Susan O’Callaghan
| Chant, Tett, and Noye in Somerset and Devon
| Unsourced profiles are my favorite
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| Mike Pickup
| Porter family centred in Taunton
| Unsourced Somerset profiles, Quin & Pickup families in south-east England, and Surrey missing marriages
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| Lucy Sarson
| One Place Study of the Crescent in Taunton, Burials at St George Church, Wilton in Taunton
| Learning about Unconnected Profiles
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| Cherryl Schmidt
| Mitchell, England and Bishop families from Lopen; Bagg and Simmons families from Crewkerne; Mitchell family from Merriott; Rogers from Odcombe; and Lawrence family from Somerset
| My Somerset Ancestors and Unsourced Somerset Profiles
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Weldon Smith
| Ilett (1700-1800), Curry Mallet, Kingstone, Ilminster;
Symonds (1670-1790) Ilminster, Dowlish Wake;
Hutchings (1670-1770) Dowlish Wake, Seavington St. Mary;
Milbourne (1630-1710) Dowlish Wake, Dinnington;
Bawler (1700-1830) Curry Mallet;
Hawker (1700) Taunton
Associated Families:
Long (1750) Membury, Devon;
Follet/Follett (1650) Thorncombe, Dorset;
Hallett (1650) Thorncombe, Dorset;
Frye (1600) Thorncombe, Dorset;
Pittman (Wiltshire or Dorset?)
| Improve managed profiles and clear suggestion list; provide background information for related South Somerset locales in Spaces; repair unconnected profiles as possible
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Ian Speed
| Tanner family of Banwell, Seymour of High Littleton, Nation of Wiveliscombe, Milner of Bridgwater, and more
| Somerset Notables, unconnected profiles & suggestions
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Jason Tilley
| Tilley of Somerset, Somerset probate records, Yatton, Frome, Seigneurs de Tilly, palaeography
| sourcing profiles and transcribing wills
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Somerset Statistics - Monthly
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| Profiles
| Unsourced
| Unconnected
| Suggestions
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Unknowns
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| 25 Apr 2021
| 73366 ↑ (+1622)
| 2234 ↑ (+8)
| 6900 ↑ (+66)
| 5047 ↓ (-922)
| 977 ↑ (+9)
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| 28 Mar 2021
| 71744 ↑ (+764)
| 2226 ↑ (+32)
| 6834 ↑ (+176)
| 5969 ↑ (+907)
| 968 ↑ (+8)
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| 28 Feb 2021
| 70980 ↑ (+1689)
| 2194 ↑ (+84)
| 6658 ↓ (-4)
| 5062 ↑ (+1117)
| 960 ↑ (+4)
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- Data Doc Note: Fantastic effort by all who participated on the Clean-a-Thon!
Somerset Statistics - Quarterly
| Date
| Profiles
| Unsourced
| Unconnected
| Suggestions
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Unknowns
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| 28 Mar 2021
| 71744 ↑ (+9339)
| 2226 ↑ (+449)
| 6834 ↑ (+917)
| 5969 ↑ (+4202)
| 968 ↑ (+98)
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| 27 Dec 2020
| 62405 ↑ (+3304)
| 1777 ↓ (-10)
| 5917 ↑ (+69)
| 1767 ↓ (-818)
| 870 ↑ (+29)
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| 27 Sep 2020
| 59101 ↑ (+2802)
| 1787 ↓ (-135)
| 5848 ↑ (+292)
| 2585 ↑ (+366)
| 841 ↑ (+17)
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| 28 Jun 2020
| 56299 ↑ (+4011)
| 1922 ↑ (+297)
| 5556 ↑ (+71)
| 2219 ↓ (-683)
| 824 ↓ (-138)
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Martin Southwood who ran the http://www.wsom.org.uk/Parreg.html site passed away in 2018.
Here is the note from his wife Gill. I am working on the Chidgey family at the moment:
"Sadly my husband Martin died in October 2018 - but I know he would be thrilled to see that the research he did over the years is still helping family historians to discover more about their families. I am not really computer literate enough to be able to help you, but did you know that there are still Chidgeys living in Watchet. Maurice Chidgey used to be in the printing department of the local newspaper, the West Somerset Free Press and he has written a book about Watchet, with many old photos. It's title is "Watchet & Williton Revisited" by Maurice & Joyce Chidgey and Ben Norman, printed by Halsgrove (their email according the book is www.halsgrove.com). It may be possible to get a second-hand copy from ABE Books, an on-line bookstore in UK. Also printed by Halsgrove is "The Book of Watchet - a Millenium Portrait" compiled by David Banks - again full of old photos."
The page http://www.wsom.org.uk/Parreg.html is buried very deep in the Somerset Resources and as this page has birth/baptism, marriage and burial information on well over 20 parishes, could it be linked under each parish? Big job, but I would be willing to help out with that. AND, I hope that it doesn't disappear, like High Littleton did for a while.
I can't determine the server that these pages are uploaded under.
Wendy :)
Cheers Ian, TL Somerset