Posted By:	Vance Mead
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	Subject:	Re: LAMPARD & MEAD in Wiltshire, England
	Post Date:	March 06, 2009 at 01:19:22
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	Forum:	Mead Family Genealogy Forum
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The Somerset RO has a good search program: http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ They have Parish records only from 1724, but there are Bishop's transcripts for Hornblotton: 1605-09; 1611 defective; 1615-16; 1621-23; 1629-30; 1635-36; 1640-41; 1663; 1666-67; 1669-70; 1675-76; 1695; 1701; 1703-09; 1800-13. Also tax records at the National Archives might be useful if John’s family had lived there for a generation or two. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/ The Hearth Tax Returns of 1670-71 - E179/172/434 - look like they were very comprehensive.