Kingskerswell, Devon Genealogy
Guide to Kingskerswell, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Kingskerswell, Devon | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Haytor |
| County | Devon |
| Poor Law Union | Newton Abbot |
| Registration District | Newton Abbot |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1752 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1606 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Ipplepen |
| Diocese | Exeter |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | A Peculiar of the Court of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter |
| Location of Archive | |
| Devon Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
KINGSKERS WELL, or KINGS-CARSWELL, a village and a parish in Newton-Abbot district, Devon. The village stands adjacent to the Torquay railway, 3 miles SSE of Newton-Abbot; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Newton-Abbot. The parish contains also the hamlets of North Whilborough and South Whilborough.[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]
Kingskerswell, Devon Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FAMR = FamilyRelatives.com (£)[3] | |||||
| FREG = FreeReg.org.uk | |||||
| PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[4] | |||||
| TGEN = TheGenealogist - (£)[5] |
| KINGSKERSWELL PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1752-1837 | |||||
| FAMR | None | None | 1752-1837 | None | None | None |
| FREG | None | None | 1752-1837 | None | None | None |
| PALL | None | None | 1790-1837 | None | None | None |
| TGEN | 1752-1837 | |||||
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
Particular Baptist
Census Records[edit | edit source]
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 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]
Kingskerswell on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, [Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales published in 1870-72. Date accessed and adapted: 29 Octrober 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
- ↑ 'Devon Parish registers collection 1538 on Familyrelatives.com,' Family Relatives, accessed 12 March 2012. Taken from Phillimore Marriage Indexes.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes.
- ↑ 'Parish Records,' TheGenealogist, accessed 26 April 2014.
