Plympton St Mary, Devon Genealogy
Guide to Plympton St Mary, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Plympton St Mary, Devon | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Plympton |
County | Devon, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Plympton St Mary |
Registration District | Plympton St Mary |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1603 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1610 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Plympton |
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]
PLYMPTON ST. MARY, a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Plympton, Ermington and Plympton, and S. divisions of Devon, ½ a mile (N. W. by W.) from Earl's-Plympton. It has no village of its own name, but includes those of RIDGWAY, UNDERWOOD, and COLEBROOK, and the hamlets of Hemerdon, Sparkwell, Venton, and part of Lee Mill Bridge. The Church of Plympton St. Mary was anciently the conventual church of the Priory. There are small Wesleyan Chapels at Ridgway and Lee Mill Bridge.[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]
Plympton St Mary, Devon Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FMP = FindMyPast - (£)[2] | |||||
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] |
Plympton St Mary, Devon Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FMP | Undefined | |||||
IGI | 1616-1812 | 1616-1632 | ||||
IGI | 1603-1728 | 1603-1684 |
Sparkwell registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
Sparkwell Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FMP | Undefined |
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- Independent/Congregational
- Wesleyan Methodist
- Society of Friends/Quaker is a non-Church of England denomination located somewhere in Plympton, but the exact parish has not been identified
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.
Transcriptions of some of the censuses records for Plympton St Mary parish can be found at http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/PlymptonStMary/index.html#Census
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]
Plympton St Mary on GENUKI
Information about Plympton St. Mary Parish, in Devon, England and past residents may be found on the Online Parish Clerk pages at http://cornwood-opc.com/psmary/home
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 578-586. Date accessed: 2 August 2013.
- ↑ 'Devon Parish Marriages,' findmypast, accessed 8 January 2014.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Devon, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 13 February 2014. Described as 'Plympton Erle' and 'Plympton Saint Mary.' Are these actually two difference localities?