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Guide to Bickington, Devon family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Bickington, Devon, England | |
|---|---|
| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Teignbridge |
| County | Devon |
| Poor Law Union | Newton Abbot |
| Registration District | Newton Abbot |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1603; For more records see Ashburton | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1620 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Moreton |
| Diocese | Exeter |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | A Peculiar of the Court of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter |
| Location of Archive | |
| Devon Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BICKINGTON, a parish, in the union of Newton Abbot, hundred of Teignbridge, Teignbridge and S. divisions of Devon, 3 miles (N. E.) from Ashburton. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[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]
Abstracts of bishop's transcripts (1620-1636) are online at Internet Archive - free.[2]
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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis,Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 228-233. Date accessed: 07 May 2012.
- ↑ 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 Internet Archive.