Revelstoke, Devon Genealogy
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Guide to Revelstoke, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Revelstoke, Devon | |
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| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Plympton |
| County | Devon |
| Poor Law Union | Plympton St Mary |
| Registration District | Plympton St Mary |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1649; For more records see Yealmpton | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1611 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Plympton |
| 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
REVELSTOKE, a parish, in the union of Plympton St. Mary, hundred of Plympton, Ermington and Plympton, and S. divisions of Devon, 7½ miles (S. by E.) from Earl's-Plympton. The parish is situated on the coast, and bounded on the north and west by the river Yealm.[1]
Resources
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.
Church records
Revelstoke, Devon Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
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Non-Conformist Churches
Plymouth Brethren
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.
Probate records
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
Revelstoke on GENUKI
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 659-665. Date accessed: 30 October 2013.
- ↑ 'Devon Parish Marriages,' findmypast, accessed 8 January 2014.