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| [[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Devon]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Devon]]
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| == Parish History ==
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| ALWINGTON (St. Andrew), a '''parish''', in the union of Bideford, hundred of Shebbear, Great Torrington and N. divisions of Devon, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Bideford; containing, with the hamlets of Fairy Cross, Ford, and Woodtown. In the church, over the door of the chancel, is a curious ancient monument to a member of the Coffin family.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A.,[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50754 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''] (1848), pp. 49-53. Date accessed: 04 June 2012.</ref>
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| == Resources ==fckLRfckLR=== Civil Registration ===fckLRfckLR<br>Births, marriages and deaths were kept by the government from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD. fckLRfckLR<br> fckLRfckLR=== Church records ===fckLRfckLR{| width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"fckLR|-fckLR| bgcolor="#cc99ff" align="center" colspan="20" | <center><font size="+1">'''Online {{PAGENAME}} Parish Register Images and Indexes'''</font></center>fckLR|-fckLR| bgcolor="#cc99ff" align="center" colspan="2" | &nbsp; fckLR| bgcolor="#99cccc" align="center" colspan="6" | <center>'''Baptisms'''</center> fckLR| bgcolor="#cccccc" align="center" colspan="6" | <center>'''Marriages'''</center> fckLR| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="center" colspan="6" | <center>'''Burials'''</center>fckLR|-fckLR| bgcolor="#cc99ff" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Earliest''' fckLR| bgcolor="#99cccc" align="center" colspan="6" | <center>.</center> fckLR| bgcolor="#cccccc" align="center" colspan="6" | <center>.</center> fckLR| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="center" colspan="6" | <center>.</center>fckLR|-fckLR| bgcolor="#000000" align="center" colspan="20" | fckLR|-fckLR| bgcolor="#cc99ff" align="center" colspan="2" rowspan="2" | '''Images''' fckLR| bgcolor="#cc99ff" align="center" colspan="18" | fckLR|-fckLR| bgcolor="#99cccc" align="center" colspan="2" | fckLR| bgcolor="#99cccc" align="center" colspan="4" | fckLR| bgcolor="#cccccc" align="center" colspan="2" | fckLR| bgcolor="#cccccc" align="center" colspan="4" | fckLR| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="center" colspan="2" | fckLR| bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="center" colspan="4" | fckLR|-fckLR| bgcolor="#000000" align="center" colspan="20" | fckLR|-fckLR| bgcolor="#cc99ff" align="center" rowspan="5" colspan="2" | '''Indexes''' fckLR| bgcolor="#99cccc" align="center" colspan="2" | fckLR| bgcolor="#99cccc" align="center" colspan="4" | fckLR| bgcolor="#cccccc" align="center" colspan="2" | 1549-1812 fckLR| bgcolor="#cccccc" align="center" colspan="4" | [http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/sog/misc-series FindMyPast]<ref name="bmi">[http://web.archive.org/web/20101214095405/http://www.origins.net/help/aboutbo-bmi-parish-DEV.aspx 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,'] ''Origins.net,'' accessed 21 May 2012.</ref> | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="center" colspan="2" | | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="center" colspan="4" | |}
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| Abstracts of bishop's transcripts (1628-1632) are online at [http://archive.org/stream/abstractsexisti00mugfgoog#page/n184/mode/2up Internet Archive] - free.<ref>Roger Granville and W.E. Mugford, ''Abstracts of the Existing Transcripts of the Lost Parish-Registers of Devon, 1596-1644'' (Exeter: William Pollard and Co. Ltd., 1908). Digitised by [http://archive.org/details/abstractsexisti00mugfgoog Internet Archive].</ref>
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| <br>Overview, Include information for parish registers and Bishop's Transcripts, Contact information for the office holding the original records, Links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.
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| === Census records ===
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| Overview, Include any unique information such as, the census for X year was destroyed, Collection in FHL and link to catalog, Online sites.
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| === Probate records ===
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| <br>Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to [county] Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
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| == Maps and Gazetteers ==
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| There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable web sites are:
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| *1851 Jurisdiction Maps
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| *Vision of Britain
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| == Web sites ==
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| Add here any relevant sites that aren't mentioned above.<br>
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| == References ==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| [[Category:Devon]]
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