Kentisbeare, Devon Genealogy

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

Kentisbeare, Devon
Type Ancient parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Hayridge
County Devon, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union Tiverton
Registration District Tiverton
Records begin
Parish registers: 1695; Separate registers exist for Kentisbeare All Saints beginning 1840
Bishop's Transcripts: 1608
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Plymtree
Diocese Exeter
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Exeter
Location of Archive
Devon Heritage Centre
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Parish History[edit | edit source]

KENTISBERE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Hayridge, Cullompton and N. divisions of Devon, 3¾ miles (E. by N.) from Cullompton. It consists of 3600 acres, of which 338 are common or waste.[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]

Kentisbeare parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FS PRs = England, Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 (FamilySearch) - free
FS BTs = England, Devon Bishop's Transcripts, 1558-1887 (FamilySearch) - free
FS Mar = England, Devon and Cornwall Marriages, 1660-1912 (FamilySearch) - free
FS = FamilySearch - free
FMP = Devon Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)
FMP Banns = Devon Banns (FindMyPast) - ($)
BOYD = England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[2]
FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free
FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free
Kentisbeare Online Parish Records
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
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 1695-1915
1695-1915
1695-1915
FMP Banns

1754-1915


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]
  • Baptist
  • 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]

Kentisbeare on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 652-659. Date accessed: 12 July 2013
  2. ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
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Probate
Courts
Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Barnstable • Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall • Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Exeter • Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes • Court of the Peculiar of the Bishop of Exeter (Episcopal Consistory) • Peculiar of the Court of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter • Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Uffculme • Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury (secondary court of Uffculme) • Court of the Peculiar of the Manor of Cockington • Court of the Peculiar of the Manor of Templeton • Peculiar of the Mayor of Exeter • Court of the Peculiar of the Custos and College of Vicars Choral in Exeter • Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Exeter • Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset • Episcopal Principal Registry of Exeter • Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Major
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