An index to wills for Devonshire. Wills are a valuable source of genealogical information. They can give details of family members, places of residence and burial as well as revealing details about their possessions.... More Info
Learn about the Exeter's interesting and sometimes turbulent past. Includes information on Bishops of Tawton, Crediton and Exeter. Also contains an elaborate map of the city of Exeter. Published in 1765. *Digitally enhanced images of the original text * Fully searchable * Bookmarked by major headings * Fully printable... More Info
This CD allows you to find the pedigree of a family and learn about its coat of arms from the Heralds' Visitation of Devon. *Digitally enhanced images of the original text *Searchable text *Bookmarked by major headings *Fully printable... More Info
This CD contains Dwelly's Parish Records, Volume 6 - Monumental inscriptions from the parishes of Countisbury, Brendon, Martinhoe, Trentishoe, Parracombe, Lynton, Bow, Zeal Monachorum, Bridford, Doddiscombsleigh, Christow and Ashton. Also includes photos, Rolls of Honour for the Army and Navy.... More Info
This CD includes a large biographical section with hundreds of portraits and biographies of peers, members of parliament, bishops, county families, county gentry, clergy, magistrates, navy and military, professional, agricultural and commercial noteworthies. This 1907 works also includes a 'Historical and Descriptive Account of Devonshire', covering such topics as Squires and Yeomen, Legends and Traditions, and Cathedral Lore. * Digitally enhanced images of the original text * Searchable tex More Info
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A transcript by T. L. Stoate of the parish registers of Tavistock in Devon covering the following periods, Baptisms 1614 – 1781, Marriages 1614 – 1792, Burials 1614 – 1781
This survey, compiled in 1525, contains details of tenants and the type of lease held, from the estates in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire which belonged to the Marchioness of Dorset. Lots of information for both family and local historians.
All four 1569 musters for the counties of Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset and Devon, with the addition of the Dorset Tudor musters of 1539 and 1542 all on one disk. All fully searchable.
This book covers all of those parishes in the Dioceses of Exeter, which is most of Devon. There are thousands of entries starting in 1523 and continuing to1631. It is arranged in chronological order and gives the names of the bride and groom and their adobe. It is the ideal tool to locate the that missing marriage, particularly in those parishes that have not surviving parish registers or are pa...More Info
Devonshire Customs, Characteristics and Folk-Lore. Devon is particularly rich in customs and legends that are ancestors used to observe. In this book the author looks as some of these and the way people in the past would react to them. There are chapters relating to Superstitions, things that were lucky and unlucky, customs and old songs to name just a few. There is also a chapter on Peculiar a...More Info