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Guide to '''Milton Abbot, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy:''' parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Guide to '''Milton Abbot, 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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MILTON-ABBOT (St. Constantine), a '''parish''', in the union and hundred of Tavistock, Tavistock and S. divisions of Devon, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Tavistock comprising 62 acres.<ref>Samuel A. Lewis, ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51152#s13 A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), pp. 319-321. Date accessed: 16 July 2013</ref>  
MILTON-ABBOT (St. Constantine), a '''parish''', in the union and hundred of Tavistock, Tavistock and S. divisions of Devon, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Tavistock comprising 62 acres.<ref>Samuel A. Lewis, ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51152#s13 A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), pp. 319-321. Date accessed: 16 July 2013</ref>  


== Resources  ==
=== Resources  ===


==== Civil Registration  ====
==== Civil Registration  ====
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===== Non-Conformist Churches<br> =====
*Bible Christian Methodist
*Wesleyan Methodist<br>


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


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


== References  ==
== References  ==

Revision as of 09:14, 18 February 2015

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

Milton Abbot, Devon
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Tavistock
County Devon
Poor Law Union Tavistock
Registration District Tavistock
Records begin
Parish registers: 1653
Bishop's Transcripts: 1606
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Tavistock
Diocese Exeter
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
Location of Archive
Devon Record Office

Parish History[edit | edit source]

MILTON-ABBOT (St. Constantine), a parish, in the union and hundred of Tavistock, Tavistock and S. divisions of Devon, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Tavistock comprising 62 acres.[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]

Milton Abbot, Devon Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2]
FMP = FindMyPast - (£)[3]
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[4]
Milton Abbot, Devon Genealogy Online Parish Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

Indexes Images Indexes Images Indexes Images
BOYD

1654-1767


FMP

Undefined


IGI 1653-1786
1654-1767


Non-Conformist Churches
[edit | edit source]
  • Bible Christian Methodist
  • 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]

Milton Abbot on Genuki

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 319-321. Date accessed: 16 July 2013
  2. Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
  3. 'Devon Parish Marriages,' findmypast, accessed 8 January 2014.
  4. Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Devon, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 11 February 2014.