Milton Abbot, Devon, England Genealogy: Difference between revisions

Milton Abbot, Devon, England
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Tavistock
County	Devon
Poor Law Union	Tavistock
Registration District	Tavistock
Records begin
	Parish registers: 1653
	Bishop's Transcripts: 1606
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
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England

Devon

Devon Parishes

Milton Abbot

Guide to Milton Abbot, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History[edit | edit source]

MILTON-ABBOT (St. Constantine), a parish, in the union and hundred of Tavistock, Tavistock and S. divisions of Devon, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Tavistock comprising 62 acres.^[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]

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]

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England[edit | edit source]

Due to the increasing access of online records:

Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified

Dates in the following table are approximate

Hover over the collection's title for more information

Milton Abbot Online Parish Records
Collections	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Devon	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
FamilySearch Parish Registers-Devon	1500s-1900s	-	1600s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Find My Past Parish Registers-Devon ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Find My Past Banns-Devon ($)	-	-	1600s-1800s	-	-	-
Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Devon ($)	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s	-
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)	-	1800s-2000s	-	1800s-2000s	-	1800s-2000s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-
National Burial Index-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	-	-	1800s-1900s

Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

The Genealogist Parish Registers - Devon ($)
UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)[edit | edit source]

1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
Bible Christian Methodist
Wesleyan Methodist

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]

Milton Abbot on Genuki

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 319-321. Date accessed: 16 July 2013

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 319-321. Date accessed: 16 July 2013

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 *[https://ogindex.org/ Online Genealogical Index] -  Links to online genealogical records
-====Nonconformist Records====
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-"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.<br>
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 *Bible Christian Methodist
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 === Census Records ===
-Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See [[England Census|England Census]] for more resources. <br>
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 === Probate Records  ===
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 Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.<br>
-*[https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ England Jurisdictions 1851]
+*[http://maps.familysearch.org/ England Jurisdictions 1851]
-*[https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain]
+*[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain]
 == Websites  ==