Axminster, Devon, England Genealogy
England 
Devon Dorset Devon Parishes Dorset Parishes Axminster
Part of this parish is in Dorset. See also Axminster, Dorset.
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Axminster is an ancient parish, partly in Devon and partly in Dorset. Axminster, par. and market town, in the above hundred. Axminster is an ancient parish, partly in Devon and partly in Dorset, and is on river Axe, 25 miles NE. of Exeter and 144 miles SW. of London by rail, 7058 ac., Pop. 2872.[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]
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Abstracts of bishop's transcripts (1606-1636) are online at Internet Archive - free.[3]
Abstracts of bishop's transcripts (1634-1635) are online at Internet Archive - free.[3]
Overview, Include information for parish registers and Bishop's Transcripts, Contact information for the office holding the original records, Links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.
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
Web sites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wilson, John M., Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales, publ. London and Edinburgh: 1870; http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/index.jsp
- ↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' Origins.net, accessed 21 May 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.