East Down, Devon Genealogy

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Guide to East Down, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

East Down, Devon
Type England Jurisdictions
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Braunton
County Devon, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union Barnstaple
Registration District Barnstaple
Records begin
Parish registers: 1538
Bishop's Transcripts: 1597
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Shirwell
Diocese Exeter
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple
Location of Archive
Devon Heritage Centre
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Parish History[edit | edit source]

DOWN, EAST (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Barnstaple, hundred of Braunton, Braunton and N. divisions of Devon, 6¾ miles (N. N. E.) from Barnstaple. [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]

East Down, Devon Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FMP = Devon Parish Records (findmypast) - (£)[2]
FREG = FreeReg.org.uk
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3]
EAST DOWN PARISH (1538) Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

 Indexes Images Indexes Images Indexes Images
FMP 1813-1916 1813-1916



FREG 1538-1874
1539-1812
1539-1812
IGI 1538-1837
1539-1837


Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
  • Baptist
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Presbyterian
  • Wesleyan Methodist

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]

East Down on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 84-88. Date accessed: 01 July 2013.
  2. ↑ 'Devon Parish Records Coverage,' Findmypast, accessed 15 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Devon, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 12 February 2014.
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