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Guide to Tavistock, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Tavistock, Devon | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Tavistock |
| County | Devon |
| Poor Law Union | Tavistock |
| Registration District | Tavistock |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1614 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1602 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Tavistock |
| Diocese | Exeter |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes |
| Location of Archive | |
| Devon Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
TAVISTOCK (St. Evstachius), a borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Tavistock, Tavistock and S. divisions of the county of Devon, 33 miles (W. by S.) from Exeter. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, 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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- Bible Christian Methodist
- Independent/Congregational
- Methodist
- Presbyterian Unitarian
- Society of Friends/Quaker
- Wesleyan Methodist
- Wesleyan Methodist Association
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.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Devon Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Tavistock on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis,Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 303-310. Date accessed: 04 November 2013.