Devonport St Paul, Devon, England Genealogy

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Guide to Devonport St Paul, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Devonport St Paul
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Devon
Hundred Devonport Borough
Poor Law Union Stoke Damerel Incorporation
Registration District Stoke Damerel
Records Begin
Parish registers 1847
Bishop's Transcripts None
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Plympton
Diocese Exeter
Province Canterbury
Probate Court Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
Archive
Devon Record Office


Parish History

DEVONPORT, a celebrated naval arsenal, and a borough, in the parish of Stoke-Damerall, or Stoke, S. division of the hundred of Roborough, S. division of Devon, 1½ mile (W.) from Plymouth, and 218 (W. by S.) from London. There are two episcopal chapels; St. Aubyn's, and St. John's. Four church districts, named respectively; St. James',St. Paul's, St. Mary's, and St. Stephen's, each were endowed in 1846 by the Ecclesiastical Commission. The livings are all in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Exeter, alternately. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, Moravians, Unitarians, and other sects.[1]

Resources

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Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

Church Records

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England

Due to the increasing access of online records:

  • Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
  • Dates in the following table are approximate

Hover over the collection's title for more information

Devonport St Paul Online Parish Records
Collections
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Devon
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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FamilySearch Parish Registers-Devon
1500s-1900s
1500s-1900s
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1600s-1900s
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
1500s-1900s
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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FreeREG
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
Findmypast Parish Registers-Devon ($)
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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Findmypast Banns-Devon ($)
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1600s-1800s
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Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Devon ($)
1500s-1800s
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1500s-1800s
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1500s-1800s
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Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)
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1800s-2000s
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1800s-2000s
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1800s-2000s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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1500s-1800s
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National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
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1800s-1900s

Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Nonconformist Records

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Devonport, but the exact parish has not been identified:

  • Bible Christian Methodist
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Independent/Congregational
  • Moravian/United Brethren
  • Particular Baptist
  • Presbyterian
  • Roman Catholic
  • Society of Friends/Quaker
  • Unitarian
  • Wesleyan Methodist
  • Wesleyan Methodist Reform

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

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.

Website

Devonport St Paul (see Stoke Damerel) on GENUKI

References

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 46-55. Date accessed: 26 October 2013.