Stockleigh English, Devon Genealogy
Guide to Stockleigh English, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Stockleigh English, Devon | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | West Budleigh |
| County | Devon |
| Poor Law Union | Crediton |
| Registration District | Crediton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1610 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1663 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Cadbury |
| 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
STOCKLEY-ENGLISH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Crediton, hundred of West Budleigh, Crediton and N. divisions of Devon, 5¼ miles (N. by E.) from Crediton.[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
Stockleigh English, Devon Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| IARC = Internet Archive - free[2] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] |
| Stockleigh English, Devon Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| IARC | 1681-1731 | |||||
| IGI | 1606-1837 | 1606-1834 | ||||
Non-Conformist Churches
None
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
Stockleigh English on GENUKI
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Date accessed and adapted: 3 November 2013.
- ↑ J. Erskine-Risk, 'Registry Required by Act of Parliament for Burials in Woollens in Stockleigh English,' Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 36 (1904):517-521. Digitised by Internet Archive - free.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Devon, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 13 February 2014.