Bradstone, Devon Genealogy
Guide to Bradstone, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Bradstone, Devon | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Lifton |
| County | Devon |
| Poor Law Union | Tavistock |
| Registration District | Tavistock |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1654 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1614 | |
| 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
BRADSTONE (St. Nun), a parish, in the union of Tavistock, hundred of Lifton, Lifton and S. divisions of Devon, 4¼ miles (S. E. by E.) from Launceston.[1]
Resources
Civil Registration
>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
Abstracts of bishop's transcripts (1611-1627) are online at Internet Archive - free.[2]
Non-Conformist Churches
Bible Christian Methodist
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
There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable web sites are:
- 1851 Jurisdiction Maps
- Vision of Britain
Websites
Bradstone on GENUKI
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 334-339. Date accessed: 24 October 2013
- ↑ 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.