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Guide to Alphington, Devon family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Alphington, Devon, England | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Wonford |
| County | Devon |
| Poor Law Union | St Thomas |
| Registration District | St Thomas |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1603 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1606 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Kenn |
| Diocese | Exeter |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Exeter |
| Location of Archive | |
| Devon Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
ALPHINGTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of Wonford, Wonford and S. divisions of Devon, 1½ mile (S.) from Exeter. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Alphington, Devon, England Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (FindMyPast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] |
| Alphington, Devon, England Genealogy Parish Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1603-1837 | |||||
| IGI | 1603-1837 | 1603-1643, 1657-1837 | ||||
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 [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.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable web sites are:
- 1851 Jurisdiction Maps
- Vision of Britain
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 44-49. Date accessed: 30 May 2012.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Devon, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 12 February 2014.