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Bedminster union :My interest - the family concerned were not in the workhouse but were locals who were unable due to illness to get to church at Long Ashton/Flax or Barrow Gurney - their child was christened at the chapel by a local vicar - not sure which one  - I do think  that chapel was consecrated as  the family would have been quite sharp on that .... but  thats why i am trying to find the records.....

As regards your Browns at Wraxall - recommend visit to Taunton to possibly look at other Wraxall records from the parish chest  ?

Best wishes

I think I have the answer. My grandfather was baptised in Long Ashton church.

So there wouldn't be expected to be a register for any chapel in the workhouse. There was no chapel in the original design. The chapel was built at the expense of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield, which I think indicates that it would have been private and not licensed for any rites of the established church.

It's not directly relevant, but the workhouse collection includes a register of births in the workhouse. It gives date of birth sex of child name of mother parish and whether legitimate. I don't recall a register of baptisms. My assumption is that the chapel was not consecrated.

In the case of the duplicate Alfred Bown forenames, have you looked for baptisms to see if they are both baptised as Alfred and not one of them Albert.  It is quite a common combination to make a mistake on.

I have similar problem of loads of family history documents and nowhere to put them.  A friend suggested contacting the Somerset records office in Taunton and donating them.  Haven't tried yet but worth a thought. 

When husband Peter discovered - via DNA testing - that he no longer had Devon & Cornwall ancestors he donated all the books he'd amassed on those 2 counties to the relevant FH Societies...however, he has rapidly filled the space with books on Sussex & Kent (his new ancestral counties)!!  The dining room was filled with DEV & CON books for months as we awaited volunteers to come and collect them.  Good luck and speed with your new boiler installation.