Buckland Sororum or Buckland Minchin, Somerset
Historical Description
Buckland-Sororum or Buckland-Minchin, a locality in Durston parish, Somersetshire, 4½ miles W of Taunton. A house of regular canons was founded here in 1167 by William de Erleigh, but soon suppressed. The property of it was given in 1180 to the Knights Hospitallers. A nunnery and a preceptory succeeded the monastery, and the former consisted at first of the sisters of the Knights Hospitallers, but afterwards was separated from them and became Augus-tinian. The property was given at the dissolution to Alexander Popham and William Halley.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Somerset papers online:
- Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette
- Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser
- Western Gazette
- Wells Journal
- Somerset County Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.