Abbotsham, Devon, England Genealogy
Guide to Abbotsham, Devonshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.
Parish History
ABBOTSHAM (St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Bideford, hundred of Shebbear, Great Torrington and N. divisions of Devon, 2 miles (W.) from Bideford with the hamlets of Shepperton and Littleham.[1]
Resources
Census records
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.
Church records
Abbotsham, Devon, England Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (FindMyPast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FMP = FindMyPast.co.uk (£) | |||||
| FREG = FreeReg.org.uk | |||||
| FS PR's = FamilySearch Parish Registers | |||||
| IARC = Internet Archive - free[3] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[4] |
| ABBOTSHAM PARISH (year) Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1597-1636 | |||||
| FMP | 1597-1754 | |||||
| FREG | 1653-1670 | 1653-1734 | 1653-1734 | |||
| FS PR's |
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| IARC | 1597-1602 | 1597-1602 | 1597-1602 | |||
| IARC | 1607-1637 | 1607-1637 | 1607-1637 | |||
| IGI | 1598-1636, 1653-1875 | 1574-1875 | ||||
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Non-Conformist Churches
- Wesleyan Methodist
Civil Registration
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.
Registration District
- Bideford
Poor Law Union
- Bideford
Probate records
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
There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable web sites are:
- 1851 Jurisdiction Maps
- Vision of Britain
Web sites
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 1-5. Date accessed: 16 May 2012.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Devon, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 12 February 2014.
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