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1990 Limitations on research.

The main, and in many cases the only source of information of early generations, are the registers of baptisms/christenings, marriages and burials kept by the Anglican Parish churches before the beginning of civil registration in 1837. The earliest registers available at Somerset Record Office date from around 15,0 (some incomplete or in early years largely indecipherable)- most others commence within 150 years of that date. The earliest register for Langford Budville, where the family tree begins, dates from 1537, but marriage records prior to 1607 and between 1673 and 1665 no longer exist. Some Somerset burial registers from around 1P.13 are Still held or Sit use by churches concerned, rd these will not hove been inspected; in Bristol some resisters were destroyed in air raid- in the 1c 39-45 bar, which man account for failure to trace two marriages and the baptisms of some other members of in Wrington/Barbell group with Bristol links (the marriages would hove been around 1753S and 1-34, but do not appear in recently-compiled indexes of Somerset & Dorset and Bristol & Avon Family History Societies).

Post-1836 births, marriages and deaths occurring outside Somerset and Bristol, and a few within those locations, have been followed-up as for as possible by correspondence with members of the family in current telephone directories; sadly a few have not responded, and information they might have been able to provide is lacking.