Jump to content

Devon, England Genealogy: Difference between revisions

Devon, England Genealogy (view source)

Revision as of 10:38, 20 December 2024

146 bytes removed ,  20 December 2024
Added Locality Template.
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
(Added Locality Template.)
 
(81 intermediate revisions by 25 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{sidebar
{{Locality
|news
|Name=Devon
|info
|ID=3652
}} <div style="float: right; width: 74%">{{multiple image
|Level=1
| align    = right
|Country=England
| direction = vertical
|CountryID=267
| width    = 180
|Locality1=Devon
<!-- Image 1 -->
|Locality1id=3652
}}{{breadcrumb
| link1=[[United Kingdom]]
| link2=[[England Genealogy|England]]
| link3=
| link4=
| link5=[[{{PAGENAME}}|Devon]]
}}{{EngCountySidebar}}
{| style="float:right"
|-
| style="padding-right:0px"|
[[Image:England-devonshire.png|thumb|<center>Devon England<center>]]
|}
<div style="display:flex; flex-wrap:wrap">
<div style="margin-right:20px">__TOC__</div>
<div id="fsButtons; text-align:top"><span class="online_records_button">[[Devon, England Online Genealogy Records]]</span>
<span class="community_button">[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Genealogy Ask the FamilySearch Community]</span></div>
</div>
===County Information===


"Devon.-- maritime co. in SW. of England; is bounded N. by the Bristol Channel, E. by Somerset and Dorset, S. by the English Channel, and W. by Cornwall; length, 69 miles; breadth, 65 miles; coast-line, about 143 miles; area, 1,655,208 ac., pop. 603,595."


===Parishes===


| image1    = Flag of Devon.png
{| class="FCK__ShowTableBorders" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="6" align="center"
| caption1  = St. Petroc's Cross, the flag of Devon
|-
<!-- Image 2 -->
| bgcolor="#dddddd" align="center" valign="middle" height="30" |<center>Click on a letter for a list of Wiki page links to Devon '''parishes:'''<br>[[Devon Parishes#A|A]] [[Devon Parishes#B|B]] [[Devon Parishes#C|C]] [[Devon Parishes#D|D]] [[Devon Parishes#E|E]] [[Devon Parishes#F|F]] [[Devon Parishes#G|G]] [[Devon Parishes#H|H]] [[Devon Parishes#I|I]] [[Devon Parishes#J|J]] [[Devon Parishes#K|K]] [[Devon Parishes#L|L]] [[Devon Parishes#M|M]] [[Devon Parishes#N|N]] [[Devon Parishes#O|O]] [[Devon Parishes#P|P]] [[Devon Parishes#R|R]] [[Devon Parishes#S|S]] [[Devon Parishes#T|T]] [[Devon Parishes#U|U]] [[Devon Parishes#V|V]] [[Devon Parishes#W|W]] [[Devon Parishes#Y|Y]] [[Devon Parishes#Z|Z]]</center>
|}


Use an [https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ interactive map] to find jurisdictions for each parish in Devon.


===Civil Registration Districts===


| image2    = England-devonshire.png
[http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/REG/dev.htm List of Devon Civil Registration Districts]
| caption2  = Location of Devon in [[England]]
}}
'''Devon''' (or archaically, '''Devonshire''') is a large maritime county in South West England.


=== Featured Content  ===
===Websites===


=== Research Tools  ===
*Devon Resources and help pages on [http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?board=10.0 RootsChat Devon Resources and help pages. (Free)].
*[https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV Genuki Devon], the main genealogical resource for Devon with links to all known Devon-related websites
*[http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/links.htm Devon Family History Society]
*[https://ogindex.org/ Online Genealogical Index]


Exeter City council has posted more than 100,000 cemetery index cards online titled [http://pub.exeter.gov.uk/asp/bereavement/BS.aspx Bereavement Services Alphabetical Index Cards] for the three cemeteries managed by the council.
[http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/OPCproject.html Devon Online Parish Clerk Project] is a resource of volunteers willing to provide free look-ups and research within the County of Devon. Over 95 volunteers have adopted approx. 200 of the ancient 500 Devonshire Parishes. (More volunteers are always welcome!)
=== Jurisdictions  ===
Use an [http://maps.familysearch.org interactive map ]to find jurisdictions for each parish in Devon.
==== Civil Districts  ====
When civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in 1837, Devon was divided into a number of registration districts, each containing several parishes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The index to the civil records gives the name of the district where an event took place.&nbsp; Click [http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/REG/dev.htm here]&nbsp;to see&nbsp;a list of the&nbsp;civil districts in Devon and the parishes covered by each.&nbsp;
Read more about [[England Civil Registration]].
==== Parishes  ====
See a list of the [[Devon Parishes|parishes]] of Devon with links to articles.
==== Probate  ====
Before 1858, every town and parish in Devon was under the probate jurisdiction of several ecclesiastical courts.&nbsp; To read more about probate records and see a list of Devon towns and parishes and the probate courts that had jurisdiction over them, go to [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Devonshire_Probate_Records#Court_Jurisdictions Devonshire Probate Jurisdictions].
=== Websites  ===
*[http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV Genuki Devon], the main genealogical resource for Devon with links to all known Devon-related websites
*[http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ Devon Family History Society]
*[http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Devon Devon DNA project]
*[http://www.looking4kin.com/group/devonshireenglandgenealogy Looking 4 Kin Genealogy &amp; Family History Network - Devonshire]
*A brief list of web sites and/or web pages for Devon and many of its parishes can be found at [http://fhlfavorites.info/Links/British/England/devonshire.htm FHLFavorites.info].
{{closing div}}


{{Geographic Location
{{Geographic Location
Line 61: Line 53:
|Centre    = Devon
|Centre    = Devon
|North    = ''Bristol Channel''
|North    = ''Bristol Channel''
|Northeast = [[Somerset]]
|Northeast = [[Somerset, England Genealogy|Somerset]]
|East      = [[Dorset]]
|East      = [[Dorset, England Genealogy|Dorset]]
|Southeast = ''English Channel''
|Southeast = ''English Channel''
|South    = ''English Channel''
|South    = ''English Channel''
|Southwest = [[Cornwall]]<br>''English Channel''
|Southwest = [[Cornwall, England Genealogy|Cornwall]]<br>''English Channel''
|West      = [[Cornwall]]
|West      = [[Cornwall, England Genealogy|Cornwall]]
|Northwest = ''Celtic Sea''
|Northwest = ''Celtic Sea''
}}  
}}
{{England counties}}  
{{England counties}}
[[Category:Devon]]
[[Category:Devon, England|.]]
[[Category:Counties of England]]
Tegnosis
Approver, Batcheditor, Moderator, Patroller, Protector, Reviewer, Bots, Bureaucrats, editor, Interface administrators, pagecreator, pagedeleter, Page Ownership admin, Push subscription managers, Suppressors, Administrators, Upload Wizard campaign editors, Widget editors
321,763

edits

Retrieved from "https://integration-ru.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1174900...6049300"