Chudleigh Knighton, Devon Genealogy
Guide to Chudleigh Knighton, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Chudleigh Knighton, Devon | |
|---|---|
| Type | Chapelry (England) |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Teignbridge |
| County | Devon, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Newton Abbot |
| Registration District | Newton Abbot |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1875; For more records see Hennock and also Bovey Tracey | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Moreton |
| Diocese | Exeter |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes |
| Location of Archive | |
| Devon Heritage Centre | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON can be found under HENNOCK, a village and a parish in Newton-Abbot district, Devon. The village stands near the river Teign and the Moreton-Hampstead railway, 3 miles WNW of Chudleigh, and 6 SE by S of Moreton-Hampstead; and has a post office under Exeter. The parish includes also the hamlet of Knighton. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Knighton, in the diocese of Exeter. There is a chapel of ease, in the early English style, at Knighton; and a small Wesleyan chapel, in Hennock village.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Chudleigh Knighton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Chudleigh Knighton Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PRs | 1538-1912 | 1538-1912 | 1538-1912 | |||
| FS BTs | 1558-1887 | 1558-1887 | 1558-1887 | |||
| FS Mar | 1660-1912 | |||||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FMP | 1875-1915 | 1880-1913 | 1834-1836 | |||
| FMP Banns | 1880-1915 | |||||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Devon Archives and Local Studies.
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
None
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Chudleigh Knighton (see Hennock) on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) Adapted, Date Accessed: 25 October 2013.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
