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Guide to '''Cullompton, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy:''' parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Guide to '''Cullompton, 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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CULLOMPTON (St. Andrew), a market-town and '''parish''', in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Hayridge, Cullompton and N. divisions of Devon, 12miles (N. E. by N.) from Exeter, and 166 (W. by S.)from London, and a collegiate church was founded here by one of the Saxon monarchs. There are places of worship for '''Baptists''', '''Bryanites''', the '''Society of Friends''', '''Independents''', '''Wesleyans''', and '''Unitarians'''.<ref>Samuel A. Lewis, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50910#s12 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''] (1848), pp. 746-751. Date accessed: 31 December 2012.</ref>  
CULLOMPTON (St. Andrew), a market-town and '''parish''', in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Hayridge, Cullompton and N. divisions of Devon, 12miles (N. E. by N.) from Exeter, and 166 (W. by S.)from London, and a collegiate church was founded here by one of the Saxon monarchs. There are places of worship for '''Baptists''', '''Bryanites''', the '''Society of Friends''', '''Independents''', '''Wesleyans''', and '''Unitarians'''.<ref>Samuel A. Lewis, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50910#s12 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''] (1848), pp. 746-751. Date accessed: 31 December 2012.</ref>  


== Resources  ==
=== Resources  ===


==== Civil Registration  ====
==== Civil Registration  ====
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==== Church records  ====
==== Church records  ====
===== Non-Conformist Churches<br> =====
*Baptist
*Independent/Congregational
*Presbyterian
*Presbyterian Unitarian
*Society of Friends/Quaker
*Unitarian
*Wesleyan Methodist<br>


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


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


== References ==
== References ==


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

Cullompton, Devon, England
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Hayridge
County Devon
Poor Law Union Tiverton
Registration District Tiverton
Records begin
Parish registers: 1601
Bishop's Transcripts: 1609
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Plymtree
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]

CULLOMPTON (St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Hayridge, Cullompton and N. divisions of Devon, 12miles (N. E. by N.) from Exeter, and 166 (W. by S.)from London, and a collegiate church was founded here by one of the Saxon monarchs. There are places of worship for Baptists, Bryanites, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians.[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
[edit | edit source]
  • Baptist
  • Independent/Congregational
  • Presbyterian
  • Presbyterian Unitarian
  • Society of Friends/Quaker
  • Unitarian
  • 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]

Cullompton on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 746-751. Date accessed: 31 December 2012.