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


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=== Parish History  ===
=== Parish History  ===
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CLAYHEDON (St. Andrew), a '''parish''', in the union of Wellington, hundred of Hemyock, Cullompton and N. divisions of Devon, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellington.<ref>Samuel A. Lewis, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50881#s7 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''] (1848), pp. 624-626. Date accessed: 25 October 2013.</ref>  
CLAYHEDON (St. Andrew), a '''parish''', in the union of Wellington, hundred of Hemyock, Cullompton and N. divisions of Devon, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellington.<ref>Samuel A. Lewis, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50881#s7 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''] (1848), pp. 624-626. Date accessed: 25 October 2013.</ref>  


== Resources  ==
=== Resources  ===


==== Civil Registration  ====
==== Civil Registration  ====
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==== Church records  ====
==== Church records  ====
===== Non-Conformist Churches <br> =====
Wesleyan Methodist<br>


==== Census records  ====
==== Census records  ====
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== Websites  ==
== Websites  ==


Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.  
Clayhidon on [http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Clayhidon/index.html GENUKI]<br>


== References ==
== References ==


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

Clayhidon, Devon, England
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Hemyock
County Devon
Poor Law Union Wellington
Registration District Wellington
Records begin
Parish registers: 1637
Bishop's Transcripts: 1617
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Dunkeswell
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]

CLAYHEDON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Wellington, hundred of Hemyock, Cullompton and N. divisions of Devon, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellington.[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
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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]

Clayhidon on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 624-626. Date accessed: 25 October 2013.