Ivybridge, Devon Genealogy
Guide to Ivybridge, Devon ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Ivybridge, Devon | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Ermington |
| County | Devon |
| Poor Law Union | Plympton St Mary; Totnes |
| Registration District | Plympton St Mary |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1835 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1838 | |
| 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 Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
IVY-BRIDGE, a village, in the parishes of Cornwood, Ermington, Harford, and Ugborough, union of Plympton St. Mary, hundred of Ermington, Ermington and Plympton, and S. divisions of Devon, 6 miles (E.) from Earl's-Plympton. A chapel, now a district church, was built by subscription, in 1799. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. [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]
Ivybridge, Devon Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = Devon Parish Records (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FMP = findmypast - (£)[3] |
| Ivybridge, Devon Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1835-1840 | 1835-1840 | ||||
| FMP | Undefined | |||||
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- Independent/Congregational
- Wesleyan Methodist
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]
Ivybridge (see Cornwood) on GENUKI
Ivybridge (see Ermington) on GENUKI
Ivybridge (see Ugborough) on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Date accessed and adapted: 29 October 2013.
- ↑ 'Devon Parish Records Coverage,' Findmypast, accessed 15 November 2014.
- ↑ 'Devon Parish Marriages,' findmypast, accessed 8 January 2014.
