Exmoor, Somerset, England Genealogy

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Type Extra-parochial
Civil Jurisdictions
County Somerset
Hundred South Molton; Williton and Freemanners
Poor Law Union Dulverton; South Molton
Registration District Barnstaple; Tiverton
Records Begin
Parish registers 1856
Bishop's Transcripts None
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Not Applicable
Diocese Not Applicable
Probate Court Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
Archive
Somerset Archives and Local Studies

Guide to Exmoor, Somerset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Part of this parish is in Devon. See also Exmoor, Devon.

Parish History[edit | edit source]

EXMOOR, an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of Williton and Freemanners, W. division of Somerset. Exmoor parish is primarily in the county of Somerset and partly in the county of Devon.[1]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

  • Type the name of the parish in the search bar
  • Click on the location pin on the map
  • Choose Options from the pop up box
  • Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Exmoor is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Exford.

  • Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
  • The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.


Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]

Probate Records[edit | edit source]

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Websites[edit | edit source]

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Exmoor/index.html

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date Accessed: 19 September 2013.